In Reply to: RE: RE MMG tweets in 45 degree toe in... posted by paul3 on September 18, 2017 at 12:29:01:
For the right brainer perhaps the listening tests should do you more than anything else, namely that image specificity, location precision and image saturation, Images outside the inter-speaker space tend to pop out and align with the rest of the soundstage when you hit alignment. Depth dimension will also be enhanced. You should note on naturally recorded fixed mic recordings how a mobile soloist (violin flute etc) moves against say a piano accompaniment while keeping its image unsmeared as it moves.. Heifetz tends to move a lot in his DG recordings from the early 60s.
Watch for the shape of drum kits and piano and the match of transient and decay locations on the drums and cympals, and the separate piano impact locations and extended decays and the broadening of the image as you go down the scales to the lowest notes of the piano. Ideally a solo piano recording will have fingernail tinks on the left and will expand to ~9 ft wide on the lowest bass notes. Sometimes you can localized the hammer hits on sforzando.
Brass instruments should have that startling sound onset before the brilliance comes on.
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