Crossing Left and Right Speakers


Someone in, I believe Audiogon, recommended the Audio Analyst and I checked him out.

He stated that crossing left and right speaker can affect soundstage. How can that be? wouldn't it just reverse the left and right sides of the soundstage?

How could it do anything more?

Curious,

 

TD

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@simonmoon 

Yeah, totally nuts. Last thing I expected. When the YT vid mentioned it I said to myself, "That's a bunch of Bulls**t, but there it is. Some in this thread mentioned it's not every recording, which is even stranger.

Funny, one time in the recording studio we spent 4 hours trying to find an anomaly that just vanished.

Audio is weird.

 

T

@simonmoon 

Lets see, the album I experienced it on was either, Peo Alfonsi: Amada, or Peo Alfonsi: Alma. These are two separate records, but I can't remember which one it was. And there were a few others but I can't remember them. Might have been New Blood Symphony, the instrumentals download that came with the original Vinyl.

The Alfonsi records are both extraordinary, I bought Alma from Nativedsd.com.

Ok, you guys had me questioning what I thought I had heard recently on this Chesky recording for Audiogon.  Keep in mind when I heard this I was not listening for anything.  I just noticed something sounded wrong, figured out what it was, and switched it back.  FWIW I went back and looked at the liner notes and, interestingly, this recording is binaural. Not sure that makes a big difference or not.  Anyway, I went back to listen again.  The cut I thought had no center image was correct - because it in fact has no information in the center for the first couple minutes.  It had been a long time since I listened to the recording and at that point I was just trying to figure out what was sounding wrong.  I had turned it off before I got to the part where the flute moves from right to center.  Now, the other cut (St. Louis Blues) still sounds slightly strange when the left and right sides are reversed, but I’d be hard pressed to identify exactly what was going on with that one.  It doesn’t sound completely (or only) like a simple reversal of left and right.  The center image seems less populated than when the right and left sides are wired correctly.  My room is not symmetrical either (right side is closer to a boundary) so that could contribute to it…. Anyway, just wanted to set the record straight!

@jimmy2615 

 

"this recording is binaural"

 

THIS IS STARTING TO MAKE SENSE. That might be it !!!

 

@jimmy2615

 

 

I noticed instruments move to very strange illogical places in the stage.