[bgrotto]

Alright, forget about it. The discussion is obviously going over your head.

Hopefully somebody got something out of all this nonsense.

Originally Posted by Franco

"(*I suppose we could debate my use of the word "channel" and your use of the word "image"; but that's boring and pointless because both are completely accurate. I would like to point out, however, that in headphones, there really isn't a center image (but there IS a center channel), which is pretty much the crux of my point, actually, and one of the primary obstacles of mixing in the ol' ear-goggles.)"

Oh really now? What do you call what is happening inside your head (brain) when it's picking up the information coming into your left ear, and then your right ear, when listening to anything, including headphones?

"You, on the other hand, incorrectly insisted that..."

Dude, stop. LOL, go ahead and choose my poor choice of words for what I was trying to point out, everywhere else I've told you that there is a difference between a center "channel" and "image" which is the lack of perception you started to point out, but called it the "channel" which is wrong. The "center channel" you're talking about is simply the shared information between the left and right channels, which as you've just pointed out, can also be heard on headphones and is NOT the basis of this argument, because if it was, and for some reason you COULDN'T listen to the mid information over headphones, you'd have a point. Listening to audio with headphones creates a narrow center image (perceived), you could have said THAT, instead of saying first that NOT hearing the center information (mid) on headphones is the issue.