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RE: Is that a new experience for you?

I fully agree with your last paragraph.

Where I disagree though is that there are more terribly dry recordings out there than you can shake a stick at.

Also, every real room that music is played in has an acoustic signature, real concert halls always have pros working overtime to get the acoustics just right and it is a simple fact of life that the acoustics of the room recorded music is played in will be added to whatever ambiant cues are on the record.

I understand full well what good speakers in a good room can do and the fact that when the sound appears really detached from the boxes you get a most pleasing effect, one that I have called for a good while now the "spook factor". What I think is that this can only work when the listener sees the speakers. Hide any kind of good speakers behind a curtain that is acoustically transparent and the sound remains the same but the spook factor is not as, well, spooky.

It's too bad multi-channel systems have never been implemented properly as my long gone one could do things that actually made one beleive he/she had been transported to different size venues.

Generally audiophiles are like believers in homeopathy in that they think a tiny dose of whatever is better than actually taking real medicine.

Near filed listening falls into that category as far as I am concerned, but whatever lifts your dirigeable I guess...


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