Sound Stage

[Mr Peabody]

Sound stage is an important factor to me. I like to be fooled, as close as possible, I'm at the show or in the recording studio. This discussion may be more relevant to those who listen in the dark or not distracted by visuals when listening.

Sometimes no matter how good the sound is I can be not so engaged by overly large sound stages. Cymbals shouldn't be way up in the sky or a piano stretched across the front of the room. I realize some aspects are destroyed in the original engineering. Like one cymbal in the right and another in left channel or similar oddities. Like as in the piano example a drum kit shouldn't stretch across the room or be spread out, arms are only so long, LOL

I have a problem as well with overly condensed and/or compressed sound stages. Probably why I'm not a big fan of mono. I also don't like some older recordings due to the tone but that's another discussion.

Just wondering if I'm alone in being particular with sound stage?

 

[Mike]

Sound stage to me is extremely important. Setup is crucial to achieving optimum sound staging. Jim taught me well in this regard. We learned to use specific recordings and where exactly the voices and instruments should be. If they don’t, you aren’t setup properly.

I have a friend who cannot stand to have speakers even remotely into the room. Not sure why. He thinks the drivers may fly out at him or something. It’s difficult to get any soundstaging like this.

 

[Porsche]

SS is extremely important, that's the art of dialing in the speakers and matching the gear