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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The nature of "soundstage" in audio.

Post Subject: My take on imagingPosted by paul1orr on: 3/27/2010

Markus wrote:
I don't want to hear where a musician is on stage, I want to hear why he is on stage.

Just found this site a few days ago and busy reading......
In the last 10 years I finally grew up enough to really listen to music (50 now). What I found...as per Romy's ideas on speaker positioning, is that when things are right you simply close your eyes and the speakers no longer exist, you are there,somewhere non specific, where the music is being performed and with your eyes closed you see not the musician, but where he is and feel the natural tone of the particular instrument as well as the scale of the instrument, the scale of the performing group and the scale of the venue. Personally I feel that the last point, the scale of the venue is the hardest to get in the home as larger scale places require more of a far field experience and we only really get a near field experience in most homes. The only far field available is to use small speakers which then lose the scale of the performance. Soundstage may be basically BS but imaging is certainly a sensory perception available in live and reproduced music and therefore rudimentary to all real listening.

So your are looking for the meaning in the music? The reason for the performance? Seems to me like you can't separate the where from the why if you really wish to fully ENJOY the music. Isn't the whole purpose of a site like this about achieving the most complete and enjoyable listening experience?

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