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Re: A More Realistic Presentation...

As I see it, speakers that were designed to intentionally produce a bigger, more diffuse, more enveloping soundstage. Would immediately be incorrect on all recordings except those wherein the original acoustic event had a a bigger, more diffuse, more enveloping soundstage, no?

We shouldn't generalize like this. It's equally probable that recordings made with special attention to ambience and spacial qualities would be "incorrect" played back on such a system.

As an example of what I mean. what if a recording of a group like Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young had been recorded live, unamplified & on a stage outside. How much information would be reflecting off side and rear walls that didn't exist to provide a bigger, more diffuse, more enveloping soundstage?

Who knows? But then again who knows how much energy is bounced of the walls given a direct radiating system and who knows where one is seated during the live event, microphone placement and what room playback occurs in?

Mind you I am asking these questions here in an attempt to understand if direct radiating speakers or those with intentional rear-relections such as with a rear tweeter or a dipole, would represent the more accurate replication of the original acoustic event on the majority of recordings. Knowing the answer to that question would seem to dicate which type of speakers would provide "a more realistic presentation" most of the time.

All you need to understand is that recording styles and qualities are so diverse that if one attempts to optimize one type of recording they will alienate another.

There is no specification on how one is to make a stereo recording other than how the results are stored on the media.

Attempts at objective discussions of these topic are academic at best!

One day I hope we will have a digital format where the spacial information of the recording venue is stored and mapped into the listening room and playback optimized for the "intended" response to be heard at a single listening position or averaged so that most listener can hear the music as close as possible to how it was recorded.


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