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Holographic imaging

Hi folks, is the so called holographic imaging with many tube amplifiers an artifact? With solid state one only hears "holographic imaging" if that is in the recording, but with many tube amps you can hear it all the time. So solid state fails in this department? Or are those tube amps not telling the truth?

Chris
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tbg
5,263 posts
 
Shadorne, "do an admirable job" "very few" those are good terms. I think speakers are basically "pick your poison." I have three times gone back to compression drivers in horns and three time abandoned them. I have four times tried horns with other drivers and retain one. I have had had two single driver systems which were outstanding by way of having no crossovers. I have had ribbons, electrostatics, and many multiple dynamic driver systems. I have even had two pair of omni-directional systems. My quest is discontinued now as I am retired, but I don't find the solution to realism is to be found in ideal speakers or even those that do an admirable job.
detlof
1,899 posts
 
Shadorne,
Agreed, the bigger a-Capellas though will give you a very natural sound, but they are expensive. I found that the Sound Lab U-1PX makes for a good compromise. They have good dynamics and dispersion and if properly placed, image very well.
audiokinesis
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Tbg wrote: "Pubul57 and Audiokinesis, I refuse to concede that reproduced music should be allowed to differ from real..."

AudioKinesis responds: Kindly refrain from making "straw man" arguments. That's where you attribute to the other person something that he did not actually say, and then argue against it.
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Audiokinesis, you say,"Years ago one of Stereophile's writer offered some perspective that I think is worth passing along, only I can't find the exact quote. But it went something like this:"I am not so much interested in WHERE the musicians are on the stage as I am in WHY they are on the stage."

Perhaps, I misunderstood why you quoted this.

No strawman argument here.
audiokinesis
2,746 posts
 
Tbg, I can see now how you misunderstood me.

Holographic localization of sound sources is not part of live music under most circumstances, but natural timbre and dynamics certainly are. Now I have nothing against holographic imaging, but it has never been part of my experience of "real music", so like the Stereophile writer I do not give it equal priority with other things like natural timbre and dynamics.

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