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RE: Is that a new experience for you?

What good stereo reproduction does is to open an acoustic 'window' into the recording venue between your speakers.
All the acoustic cues needed are already present in the recording either because the way it was recorded by careful mic placement or by judicious adding of artificial reverb during the mix process. (Obviously not all recordings are the same in this respect.)

Unfortunately this effect is counteracted by visual cues in our rooms. When ears and eyes disagree the brain will practically always side with the eyes, this was determined by the evolutionary pathway humans took ie trusting our eyes over our ears leads to an increased survival rate.
Which presumably is why many believe that free-standing speakers have more spacious soundstaging than wall-mounted speakers. They don't, you just have to close your eyes to remove their input from your brain to give both types of speakers a level playing field.



Edits: 07/20/14

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