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Dear Kitty,

[The positions of the instruments are an arteffect of sound reproduction and in real "live" you do not recognize the instruments positioning. You acknowledge thier presents “somewhere there” but you never recognize it as “right” or “left”.]
 
In live music yes, but in reproduced music, my major concern would be the screwing up and intentional L/R creations in the recording morons.  This really felt like one of the reasons I liked headphones so much...the spatial relationships existed less in the same way as my old small 2-ways (but introduced a number of other problems). The artificial and forced spatial relationships set up in most equipment/systems really strangulates/dictates the musical message.  Its like listening to a Turk talk in Spanish about the new Amusement Tax rate increase by the city of Chicago.  Kind of funny and sad but otherwise meaningless to my english ears.

This is also a reason I like the L1 in the same system...there is a serious lack of standardly understood emphasis in spatiality and depth.  My old 12AU7 based preamp really wanted attention at the expense of clearly attempted communication.  I plan to throw it off my 50 story rooftop during the next winter storm.

[The real "SPACE" of “life” musical event is “instantaneously dimensional” and our awareness ever-present at each single particle of the performing space.]

You know, this is much easier for some people to understand from the perspective of personal learning curves.  A friend of mine actually learns science very differently from the way I do.  His approach to listening to music is also amazingly different and parallels his scientific abilities.  These are just preliminary ideas, but where he tends to see music in a note to note relationship, I look at the overall impact, flowing concepts, macro held up by the micro and vv...etc etc....

The instant dimensional is much harder to approach for him.  OTOH, his appreciation of the micro/B level dynamics are more interesting than mine.

[When you listen "life" music you do not listen first violins and then migrate your listening attention to right where the cellos are. Our listening consciousness performs multitasking, instantaneously sampling space within an unlimited amount of locations, and then instantaneously (and without any hierarchy of events) allows us to experience the sensed.]

You're a seriously spatial cat!

[Sound reproduction never furnishes the same opportunity as space presented in reproduction has a hierarchical and sequential pattern. The only sound that I even heard that was very much different from a typical “reproduced Sound” was the sound of Melquiades. I am not kidding: when I said that Melquiades produce VERY DIFFERENT sound I really meant it.]

This is very promising to hear about and thanks for the updates.  Its really very much like when I realized that my 12au7 preamp based system could only be listened to in an OK manner if I was over in my kitchen.  The L1 fixed that, but as of yet, it has introduced (for me) only a teasing change in the reproduction.

Best,
Chirag

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