In Reply to: RE: nah ... posted by Tony Lauck on August 14, 2012 at 15:12:57:
>>What I didn't realize was how the sound stage improved,<<
I've heard far too many systems that supposedly had a "great" midrange ... but to my ears, couldn't throw out a proper 3 dimensional soundstage because the extreme frequencies were either absent and/or phasey.
Although an entire system is responsible, far too many source components fail to deliver the freq. extremes in proper fashion. It took several decades for CD players to reproduce the highs properly, and most analog units still produce phase issues with the highs.
The bottom line with audio reproduction, you simply can't have a "great" midrange without proper freq. extremes, despite what some tube fanatics claim.
tb1
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