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In the Thread: What Passes for "Space" in Home Audio?
Post Subject: You Say, PajamasPosted by Paul S on: 4/9/2024
So far, I am listening without specialized electro-mechanical
delay enhancement, so any space I am hearing is either a matter of "cues" captured during recordings, cues added to recordings by engineers or similar,
or they are sonic artifacts resulting from my stereo speakers and/or stereo speaker/room
interactions. I have shared that The Loudspeakers have a “flat frequency
response” (as measured during Troels’ developmental testing), and that they are
powerful FR. I have not done RTA in my room, and I may never do it, but it’s
safe to say, I think, that the “response curve” at my listening position is
likely nowhere near flat. I can say that whatever is preserved/presented to me
by my stereo speakers includes information
that suggests space and soundstage to me as I listen. I do not get space from
every recording at this time, and some recordings seem to do this better than
others; but the cases where it “works” prove that it can happen. Like Romy
says, I am not listening with exactly the same sonic expectations I bring to
the concert hall, etc. Of course not. So far, it seems to me that the space I
get is not a quality that comes from The Loudspeakers themselves but it seems
rather to be that they can do “space” if it’s “in the recording”.
Paul S
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