soundstage


interested to know which component has the most effect on getting good soundstage..especially back to front.Also can someone enlighten me as to how speaker placement effects soundstage. I have altec horns. I get good side to side soundstage but very little front back. All opinions are most welcome. Thanks, Larry
lvk47
tubes can sometimes offer more depth than solid state depending on what you have now and if your speakers can show it to begin with.
From my experience with a 300B SET amp and Klipsch La Scala horns, NOS tubes made a big difference with the soundstage. But nothing has made a bigger difference, particularly with the depth (front to back) of the soundstage, than putting a Michael Wolff carbon PC on my CD player. I know I'm going to start sounding like his pet monkey, but I cannot say enough about the immense difference this cord has had in expanding the sound, and making everything come off as being played live.

And as Warren said, bring out the speakers into the room, if possible. The music will fill in the space behind them.

Good luck!
Howard
Speaker placement (within your room, of course). That's where the "soundstageing comes from. It also comes from the recording & mastering -- but you can't do anything about that!

Try placing yr speakers further into the room and asymmetrically to the side walls -- i.e. at an angle to their back wall.
I have a bunch of speakers, I'd have to say you're not going to get a whole lot of spacial revelation with a big horn loaded speaker anyway.. I don't with mine. Plus I have to be listening absolutely on-axis down the throats of the horns for the best treble.