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Soundstaging and Imaging: The Delusion about The Illusion

Soundstaging in a recording—be it a live performance or studio event—and it’s reproduction in the home has been the topic of many a discussion both in the forums and in the audio press. Yet, is a recording’s soundstage and imaging of individual participants, whether musicians or vocalists, things that one can truly perceive or are they merely illusions that we all are imagining as some sort of delusion?

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geoffkait
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Trying to get the soundstage correct without a methodology is like trying to solve a bunch of simultaneous equations with more unknowns than the number of equations. Moving the speakers a little and listening a little is doomed from the start. To compound the problem, when you improve room acoustics and or improve the system, what then? Move a little, listen a little? 😛
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dave_b
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Yes...you gotta move it move it
MOVE IT!!
glupson
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twoleftears,

Does having two left ears qualify you as a "mono" or "stereo" person?
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celander OP
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I’m a hopeless believer in imaging and soundstaging. In reproduced music via a 2-channel audio system, it’s likely none of us fully understands the original recordings in terms of the original recording notes. That’s the critical issue: absent detailed knowledge of the original recording, how would one proceed to fully appreciate the accuracy of reproduced sound on one’s audio system?
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celander OP
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So it might be more about ignorance than about a delusion. I’m not sure which is worse.
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