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Joe Roberts wrote:

As for my critique of "imaging" I do reject the mindless way the term is used these days, particularly when musical perception is equated with visual perception and visual logic and terminology are used to discuss and evaluate system performance.

Because you have developed the Pavlovian stimulus from the propaganda that you sucked it and apparently have developed a fear of. You did not see me taking about visual perception, do not even recognize what I was taking about but as soon word “imaging” pop up your Pavlovian response associated it wish the “soundstage mapping”. I know where you are coming from and I have no interest to explain anything further. You are not ready yet. BTW, the use of imaging as debugging tool is also eluded you , but it is OK…

Joe Roberts wrote:

As I propose the term "dimensionality" to replace the overburdened term "imaging" to get away from the visual implications. A sound recording is not a picture.

I would disagree with it "dimensionality" implies geometrical dimension but it is very wrong. I will make one more last attempt to imply “what it might be” and then will stop. If you are familiar with Thomas Mann’s “Josef and his Brothers” then try to pay attention how Mann counted the amount of Israelis. When he said that it was 70 people in the family and he spend pages and pages to explain the precession of this number under the “truth of moonlight” then was the counting of Israelis as an algebratic action?

Joe Roberts wrote:

As for the more inclusive and detailed multi-layered deconstruction of perceptual reality as practiced by Harry Pearson and Romy, this is an interesting experiment in phenomenology, as long as it is not confused with or made to interfere with the experience of joyful music listening.  It is unnatural to think about these things while listening to live music, so why switch when listening to a stereo?

If you deal with me then deal with me. I care less who I remind you. Mind you that I know plenty people in audio whose view very much remind me what you pitch, the Harry Pearson as I know him would be one of them. You however do not see me to associate you with him, do you? Also, do not worry about my “unnatural music listening habits”. If you read at this site more them whatever interferes with your marketing then you would understand the concept of target listening

Joe Roberts wrote:

Yes, there is a spatial dimension in live music as discussed 10 pages above, but if the comparison is taken seriously, any stereo is woefully deficient in scale, presence, and three-dimensionality compared to even small scale music let alone orchestra, and this insurmountable gap would/should lead most dedicated imaging freaks to eternal despair. I think "imaging" as it is commonly known is a game of "Let's pretend."

You see, you are still comparing the live music with reproduced one. You just not there yet, there is nothing here to pretend.

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