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It's a crapshoot

When the recording style compliments the dispersion characteristics of the speaker system, soundstaging seems better. When the recording style clashes with the dispersion characteristics of the speakers system, soundstaging seems worse. Because room reflections always influence the way recordings sound in a loudspeaker system, no speaker is "best" at soundstaging - it largely depends on recording/loudspeaker synergy.

The point is further driven home, in a roundabout way, when you switch over to headphones. Recordings that were mic'd to produce strong left/right spatial cues will seem to "soundstage" much less realistically than recordings mic'd for a more diffuse sounding mix, regardless of the headphones being used.



Edits: 04/30/16

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