How to add depth for classical music


While listening to classical music, especially the orchestral pieces (e.g. Beethoven Piano/Violin Concertos, Symphonies), I find that my system is not giving me the depth, such as layers of instruments etc.   My listening environment is not ideal.  I have hard wood floor and tray ceiling.  On one side, I have windows and on the other side, I have a long corridor.  

Here's my system:
  • Parasound P5 & A23
  • Sonus Faber Venere 3.0
  • Bluesound Node2i
  • Chord Qutest

Would a new preamp/amp or integrated amp help?   I've auditioned Moon (SimAudio) 340iX and thought it's more opened than my Parasound.   But for some strange reason, I didn't really like the sound.   Maybe I need to audition again.  

Would room treatment help?  But my options are limited because of my room.

Love to hear your thoughts.
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Showing 3 responses by geoffkait

Roberjerman, from somewhere in cyberspace,

“Yes. I have the Audio Pulse Model One Digital Time-Delay System. It was purchased new I believe in 1977 for over $700. The manual is very informative and well printed and is spiral bound. The effect on the sound in the room is very live sounding. One feature it has is the ability to make Mono recordings have a Stereo quality about them. Audio Pulse uses ninety separate shift register IC’s to provide delays of 8, 12, 22, 36, 58, and 94 milliseconds of discrete delay. Reverberation decay time: variable from 0.2 to 1.2 seconds, and those times are measured as the time for the reverb output to fall by 60 db after a transient.”
roberjerman
Depth perception exists in the recording.

>>>> +1 The acoustic space is captured on the recording. In the old days digital time delay like Audio Pulse Model One created a synthetic soundstage with multiple amps and multiple speakers. But as systems and methods and tweaks improved a purer, more realistic soundstage could be generated with two channel stereo.