tuga
Legal Alien
Will due respect to Tuga, if that's his argument, he isn't making it clear in his insistent reliance on the loudspeaker's dispersion characteristics, for his view that it simply isn't possible. If anybody is talking at cross-purposes, I'm not sure it is those of us who observe that we can perceive height in an image, just as we can perceive depth and width. They are part of the illusion, whether they are specifically encoded as such in the signal is somewhat moot. One of the basic requirements for media is that they enable the 'willing suspension of disbelief' - ie I know there isn't a symphony orchestra in my living room, but I'm over it. I'm content for my brain to do what it does with what it receives, and perceive the result.
I am also content for my brain to do what it does with what it receives, and perceive the result.
No one is questioning what each one of us perceives, nor our listening experiences.
Stereo is a mechanism to generate one illusion: that of placing phantom images on or between the speakers. All the rest is our imagination at work.
And here's nothing bad or wrong with that. We have all had our live experiences and that influences our perception.
Also let's not forget that because 2-channel stereo over speakers was conceived to generate an illusion the auditory location capabilities don't work in the same way as with a live source.
People get so upset, it's almost as if I said Santa doesn't exist fGs...