Can a system sound too Holographic?


Hi friends :)

So I got a question for those interested. For me, having a 2 channel system with a Holographic soundstage is very desirable.

I bring this up because I had lent some Centerstage 2 footers ( isolation devices) to a friend to try out. To make a long story short, he likes what they are doing under his Lumin T3, however he mentioned that it might be "Too Holographic". I don't know about you guys and gals, but that wouldn't really be a problem for me. Your thoughts or experiences please. Anyone experience a soundstage that was too Holographic?

aniwolfe

For the ear (a) and (b) the speakers 1 and 2 do not present the same distance from one another, we can metaphorically with the term holography in physics transpose it in listening experience where we use the ear (a) and the brain computing indirect  sound wave (b) and direct soundwave  (a) alternatively and reciprocally  (as the light wave of reference in an hologram ) from the reference wave incoming from speakers 1 and speakers 2 by a time differential delay ( the interference pattern in physics) different for each ear; and vice versa for ear(b)...

This complex computing by the brain recreate holographic information VOLUME of the sound sources who become more  than a point, a line  or a mere surface,...

This is why the sounfiekld of speakers/room and from top headphone illustrate 3 characteristics of the SOUNDFIELD and not the traditional well known two  :

-- imaging differentiation from the sound sources in relation with each other

-- Soundstaging integrating  three dimensions in some GLOBAL stage , which can be fixed in less performant and artificial design or in a bad acoustic room but which are normally highly  recording dependant for their dimensions size ...

---Holographical definition of EACH sound surces in his own dynamical VOLUME of space... The sound sources are no more a plane but a perceived  3-d relief an outline..

@roxy54 I was fooling around. Happens sometimes. 

Call Holographic Three D. (Not fooling around)?

 

Yeah man...you sit up and yell, "what the hell are these musicians doing IN MY HOUSE," and then you calm down and realize hey...things just got a little too holographic.

Yes, it is like everything else in music.  Through a bit of tuning, the system is now on the verge of too holographic, such that the artifacts are occasionally a distraction. 

Not muted or distorted.  When you have a bell, or percussion instrument protruding into the room about 5 feet, it can take away from the music and just be distracting.  If it was not on the recording, it would not be there.  It is not just noise.

A cable upgrade got it there, and now it is pretty interesting when the artifacts happen.  I like it when things are tuned to the edge (optimal).  I could get one more of the cable set in my system, and it would likely push it over the top.  Not going there.

I remember someone telling me that their system was so resolving that they could hear the drummer fart.  Not really interested in that, so best to keep it inaudible in the background....

In 1980 I was so impresssed with a demo of Bob Carver's Sonic Holography pre amp, I drained my savings, bought the c4000 pre & M400 cube amp. Still use the pre amp. Just sold the cube. Replaced with a great Odyssey amp.

To me its like the differance between mono and stereo.

I do turn it off for some genres like old jazz or a single singer and guitar, but prog rock, synth, electronic, etc music can be immersing.

So my answerer to OP, yes it may not suit some music styles, but it can be great for others.

By the way my speakers are Magnepan 1.7is which on their own create a nice openess.

Polk made speakers back in the 1990s, 2000s? They used a 3rd cable "interconnect" between them. They definatelty created a big soundstage / holographic effect.