Limited soundstage between speakers


No matter what the source, the soundstage in my system remains within the width of the speakers. I read with envy of systems which extend the soundstage outside the speaker boundaries. Is this a problem with my speakers, amplification, room boundaries or something else?

What change should I make to improve the soundstage?

gyrodec/shelter 501/exposure 3010s2d/ spendorA6

 

rrm
mahgister: Bro,try dusting your equipment before publishing videos, it might improve the imaging.

If you put enough reflective plates at different angles around the room, the sound will bounce all over the place.

 

Acoustic in the perspective of  the passive material treatment a problem about the optimizing BALANCE between reflection, absorbtion and diffusion ratio...

And yes we can use some amount of reflection at the right spot to create an ACCURATE and BETTER soundscape....

Characterizing all reflections to be a bad outcome in a room is meaningless...

Too much absorption is bad, too much diffusion is bad also...

In a small room using positively the lateral and back refrlections is the way to create "listener envelopment" factor....

It is not my opinion here, pure acoustic science....

If you want research articles proof ask me...

 

 

If you put enough reflective plates at different angles around the room, the sound will bounce all over the place.

 

This is an excerpt by Robert E. Greene from an essay he wrote for The Absolute Sound.

For decades, it has become a fashionable matter to worry about “soundstage,” but this has reached the point that recordings are expected to have a soundstage almost independently of what the recording is—to expect the soundstage to be a property of the playback system rather than reproducing what is recorded. To my mind, this is a matter of using reflections off the walls, especially the first reflections off the sidewalls, to generate an artificial sense of space. People may like this but it is not really reproducing the recording. And the impression is very unstable in detail because it is not really there on the recording. (Some recordings actually have outside-the- speaker images because of phase effects from spaced microphones, but most recordings do not have this in any systematic way). Because of the instability, the idea has arisen that all kinds of things that really have no reason to be part of the reproduction of space at all can be evaluated according to their effect on soundstage, with enlargement being always regarded as better.

If you're truly interested in stereo microphone recording techniques.