Opinion: Half of the reason to listen to choral works is the acoustics in the recording

Interesting, "live virtual acoustics."

I used to own a sound card which had 3D acoustics features, and gaming was a huge amount of fun with it. CreativeLabs sued them into the ground, and this was long before Atmos, BTW.

This was more of the acoustics version of 3D graphics. Your ability to hear directly influenced your ability to detect enemies and avoid being killed in game. Shame that as far as I know this did not catch on as routine.

One of the really neat effects was acoustics in complex environments like mazes.  You can hear a lot lot more than you think you can about the space you are in. 

This is very different than Atmos, BTW.  AFAIK, Atmos and the DTS equivalent encode objects in your space, while the tech I remember was about encoding sounds in a non existant field.  If Atmos has the ability to encode reflective and absorptive objects which are not sound sources that would be news to me.

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E

If your system is set up to handle large scale music in the first place why would an audiophile need to enhance a good recording by adjusting his room acoustic for choral music? Dammed if I know

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I’ll argue that if your room acoustics are poor, you can’t hear the acoustics in the recording, and that with well recorded choral music this can be transcendent.   As good as live? Never, but better than having poor room acoustics? Definitely.

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E