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What makes instrument immediacy, -separation & -bo

What makes instrument immediacy, -separation & -body density ?

Most speakers i´ve heard present a "you are there" presentation, where you have the feeling of sitting in the recording room/hall. But instrument separation is mostly poor and body is thin even with high end systems.

My ideal reproduction paradigm is : the instruments are playing in my room, 5ft in front of my feet and i "look" into the stage which is ideally extending beyond wall boundaries of the front wall.
The goal is:
maximum instrument body density already at moderate levels.
high contrast between soundstage,air around the instruments and dense instrument body. grip.
instruments appear deep anchored, earthed, energized,
Immediacy while having a cohertent not forward presentation.
deep soundstage

which products (cdp,preamp,amp (300b?),speakers) favourize these design goals ?

yet i´ve found bookshelfs and tube amps to be good in these categories, but havent found a excellent system yet.
Energy speakers were not bad.
Didnt like B&W 805, Dynaudio, JMlab micro utopia - possibly with wrong (cheap) amplification.

What do you think of Reference 3a MM Decapo i with VAC ren 30/30 in a 20x17x9 room ? system budget: 9k

greets

stonedtemplepilot
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pbb
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Honestly, I find that what you are seeking is just the opposite of what live music in most venues sounds like. I am always amazed at how, except, obviously, for solos or one section of the orchestra playing on its own, the sound of an orchestra is way more homogenized than what audiophiles seek. Rock, or other amplified music for that matter, is the same for another reason: the homogeneity comes from the fact that everything comes out through the PA system.

Seems that on the road to the absolute sound, people keep forgetting what the real thing sounds like. What strikes me more as missing from recorded music are the speed, airiness and dynamics of the real thing. My youngest daughter started drumming about a month ago and I can tell you that no system has the slam of a real bass drum or the shimmer of a real cymbal.

The only music that makes sense to experience as the it is here in the room notion, is anything that could actually fit in your room: a solo piano, a trio or quartet at most, a folksy singer with guitar accompaniment. Anything bigger and you have to give that up,
stonedtemplepilot OP
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thanks for your input

yes i am seeking for the opposite of what live music in most venues sounds like - cause i want a unplugged session in a tiny jazz club sitting in the first row...

i am sure a bunch of people want that as well..
dgarretson
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Having recently progressed through stages of mods to a BAT VK tube amp, I've heard the qualities of which you speak all improve together in the same amplifier driving the same speakers. It's particularly interesting to me that soundstage size & depth-of-field are as much a product of improvements to the amp's electronics as they are a result of speaker placement or room effects. Deep-hall effects are revealed in the far corners, but the performance also moves forward of the speakers toward the listener. The amp improves in its ability to retain accurate frequency balance & dynamics at reduced volume. Finally, the qualities of grainlessness, smoothness, warmth & relaxation, are in no way unreconciled to improvements in treble resolution & air, and punch. Great dynamics is the quality that binds everything together. It fits the instrument's body within the boundary of its image & delivers impact approaching live performance. You sense that it's the intruments that are jumping, not the amplifier. The acid test for live performance is bass control. Almost all amps fail to communicate accurate texture in the bass region.
jaybo
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agree with pbb....i would add that most recordings are inherently flawed (in an audiophile way)and were never intended to emulate live music.
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shadorne
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What model Energy speakers did you like?

The early models spent a lot of effort on very wide and even dispersion and probably lead to their success as a start up company with people who left AR.

IMHO it is wide even dispersion which produces the most convincing small jazz club soundstage with precise positioning of instruments (of course you need a good recording to). A speaker with too much directivity gives the game away at once....the sound is coming from the speaker and it fails to be convincing!
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