![]() The distortion from a blown speaker is easy to hear. Look around you on an everyday basis, how often do you see people listening to speakers at an angle of 60 degrees?ĭistortion can take many forms. As every audiophile knows, the subtended angle should be approximately 60 degrees or more. To properly decode the information and reproduce the soundfield, the listener must be properly positioned relative to the stereo speakers. It is a sophisticated technique thatĮncodes and reproduces signals containing information on the spatial properties of a soundfield. Stereo is much, much more than two speakers. The mosquitoes come back, along with malaria. Then, incomprehensibly, people stop using insecticides and nets. I feel like a doctor in the tropics where malaria has finally been eradicated. Now, 50 years later, stereo is unraveling.Īs an audiophile, it’s difficult for me to express my dismay as I see stereo practically becoming a historical footnote. ![]() ![]() ![]() Audio manufacturers’ marketing departments had an easy time convincing consumers to upgrade to stereo everyone could easily hear the improvement. A couple blogs back, we discussed the ascent of glorious stereophonic sound in “The Rise and Fall of Stereo (Part One).” Stereo was a true revolution in audio playback, and it quickly condemned monaural to an eternity of lo-fi hell.
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