Out of me box...

Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Why is it that so few recordings seem to pull of the trick of projecting sounds well away from the Speakers? The only two that I own that pull it off really well on my system are:
Julian Cope's Jehovahkill, all of a sudden a very loud weird creaking sound like a sinking galleon appears two metres to the right of the right hand speaker, the first time this happened I thought the house was falling down.
Serge Gainsbourg, Gainsbourg Percussions, the applause at the beginning of the live song are projected way forward and the performance bobs and floats on an ocean of chatter, laughter and clinking glasses that seems to lap against the walls of the room. Obviously this recording was made live in the early sixties, so shouldn't be anything that special.
Most music seems to stay resolutely in the same space, about a metre each way forward and back from the speakers and at most half a metre out left and right.
This is such an amazing trick, I'm astonished that it doesn't feature on more recordings, or does it? is my system so limited that it can only pull it off very occasionally?
If anyone can recommend any other amazing out of box experiences I'd be most grateful.

Furry

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Topic - Out of me box... - furry 17:01:10 03/10/02 (1)

Re: Out of me box... - Leopold Nenning 14:35:49 03/11/02 (0)

Stereophony - layman 19:07:57 03/10/02 (0)

Re: Stereophony - furry 07:34:43 03/11/02 (0)

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