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Is soundstaging emblematic of reality?

Now that finally I have a system that soundstages excellently, I’m wondering if it’s actually  a vital component of a real concert experience.  In most genres of music, unless you’re sitting very close to the action, you don’t get the kind of precise imaging revealed in a good stereo setup.  That’s because microphones are usually (with some rare exceptions) placed close up. If you’re sitting in the middle to back section of an audience (which most people do) you certainly don’t hear anything close to holographic imaging, or even what most people accept as satisfactory imaging. 
Granted, it’s loads of fun to hear this soundstaging. And I certainly love it.  Some people might consider it the ideal music experience. But is it an essential component of musical enjoyment?


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mapman
Music occurs in 4 dimensions like everything else so the answer can only be yes.

>>>>As I’ve described in the complete explanation of how the Clever Little Cock works the TIME of the recording, second by second, is captured by the microphones along with the other three physical dimensions and comes out when the recording is played along with the other three. Unfortunately, the time coordinates captured during the recording session are very different from out internal clock with is “present time.” Many recordings we listen to were recorded 40;or 50 years ago. The two very different time coordinates clash, interfere. That interference produces subtle subconscious “confusion” in the brain 🧠 that degrades the sound. Thanks for bringing up the 4th dimension. By the way, early during the Big Bang there were many more than four dimensions, up to 26, depending on which theory you buy into, as spacetime is extremely warped due to gravity.
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I don’t know about the clock but the schpiel about it is very clever.
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May and Peter Belt and I conspired to write the explanation ten years ago. Time flies when yer having fun. If time did not exist man would have to invent it.
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I’m sure she holds no grudges, your histrionics aside. I didn’t realize it at the time, even though I was in a great many threads on AA and Stereophile forum with May, especially when Michael Green hung out at Stereophile a few years back, going back as far as the Intelligent Chip Wars on AA IN 2005, probably back to 2000, whenever May sat down at the computer to compose her comments Peter was sitting right next to her. Two of the nicest people ever.
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