Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/13/25 2:46 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-03-13, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:09:05 -0400, c186282 wrote:
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    Ha Ha ... all sorts of sensory-deception tricks are possible.

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I remember the records when 'stereo' was first coming on the market that
would create the impression of a freight train driving through the living
room.
>
It might be my ears or my less than stellar sound systems but it seems
some of the more pronounced effects of the '60s have been toned down.

 They developed a bit of subtlety, fortunately.  In the early days, they
wanted to be sure that you knew it was stereo, so many instruments would
come entirely from one speaker, with absolutely nothing of them showing
up in the other speaker.  Room ambience?  What's that?
 About 20 years ago, a local FM station got some wires crossed; the
right channel's signal was being fed to both channels, and the left
channel was going nowhere.  Those early recordings came through with
half the music missing.  For instance, the Beatles' "Lady Madonna"
lost its signature piano track.  The real irony came when they played
Guess Who's "Undun" after saying how it was written as a tribute to
jazz guitarist Joe Pass.  You guessed it, the guitar track was totally
gone.  After two weeks of this nonsense, I e-mailed them about it,
since they obviously weren't paying much attention to their on-air
signal.  It was fixed in a couple of days.
 

At the time I had a decent turntable, amp, and speakers I'd built. I think
it was one of the Rolling Stone songs that starts with a car horn. A friend
who I was demoing the system to thought it was somebody out in the
driveway.

 I once heard an experimental recording made with the microphones placed
inside molds shaped like human ears.  I jumped when I heard a loud truck
drive by - but it was outside the recording studio, nowhere near the
9th-floor apartment where I was listening to the recording.

   AH ! You've HEARD it. Think they generally called
   it "binaural". DID have a compelling 'real' aspect !