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it's an interesting topic, but it's dumb to talk about how important this is, but at the same time conflate "stereo" with "binaural". It's not clear what is being measured here in terms of the result being "good"

(stereo is for creating a realistic sound field for a number of people in your living room; binaural is for creating a realistic sound field for 1 person with headphones. there are issues and compromises either way, for example one of the problems with binaural is that when you turn your head, the virtual "stage full of musicians" swings around along with your perspective)

there was no technical detail provided here

and why is there a ?ref=seekhifi.com on the wikipedia URL? is this some new SEO idea?



Downvote. Dislike sound or music? Please just ignore the topic.


I'm not aware that downvoting topics is a thing I can do.

and I'm intensely interested in audio/hi fi/music reproduction, so I read the article with interest to find out it was trash.




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