Re: Computer recommendation for digitizing older recordings.

metaphysics. ok. why do I place my speakers as far apart as possible? to
approximate headphones as much as possible. because headphones is how the
engineer/mixer made it, and what (image) the engineer/mixer meant it to
be.
if what was meant includes an image is the matter we are discussing.

so what is an image? if an image is something that speakers add to what
the
mixer made with headphones alone, it cannot be meant that way, and
therefore
we should consider it undesirable, blame it on distortion and not attempt
to
reproduce it. however, if the image was indeed meant and made as such by
the
mixer we should, and appreciate it.

personally I doubt if the human brain is capable of extrapolating
interlacing speaker images using headphones alone, unless the mixer would
be
using speakers as monitors, which they don't. this is largely sup****ted by
my findings that the less (analogue) play-back is distorted, the more the
signal will separate into simply left and right, like david gilmour's solo
on us and them, each note coming from the other speaker.

so in my opinion the stereo image is a ghost of distortion, a user
projected
atmosphere assiociated with particular equipment, but I could be wrong,
and
also it could actually be mixed using speakers. appreciate the five-way
split-up of the headphone image, didn't know that.