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In Reply to: RE: Looks great posted by unclestu on May 06, 2015 at 22:56:05
Stu,
This is what I, perhaps mistakenly, understand as the explanation for the dominant benefits:
1. The improvement in solid, detail imaging is caused by the reflection of the sideways-leaking sound waves forward so that they hit the listener's ear instantaneously with direct sound waves with the concentrated force of matched timing.
2. The expansion in sound stage height is attributable to the re-direction of some of the sound waves that leak inwards/sideways off each speaker being heard after reflecting off the top rather than mid-areas of the channel separator.
3. The marked increase in sound purity follows the removal of corrupt turbulence when the sound waves from each speaker are prevented from leaking sideways and meeting centrally before reaching the listener's ears.
You are correct that the whole sound stage is expanded in width but to me it's the least striking of the improvements and not one for which I can offer an explanation. Perhaps you can? As you say, the whole polarity issue is infuriating with CDPs; with servers the software setting is made once per album and then it's no longer an issue.
Hope that more inmates will grab the plywood/ L-joints and build their own panels to enjoy the many benefits of your tweak.
Thank you again.
DG
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Even prior to my panels, I had great soundstage width. The panels basically sharpened the imaging within the soundstage and added a great amount of depth. This additional sharpness makes the extreme width information much more audible, in the sense that it is very nicely presented, with greater resolution of fine detail.
Incidentally, I prefer the panels even taller ( I can't in my room as I have low ceilings). You can experiment with placing a short stool under the panels or even placing an open CD case on the top. (I know, I know..... all that work.....). This way certain pieces, particularly choir pieces (thinking Cantate Domino) achieve a truly ethereal quality.
In a way, I guess we are simulating a headphone. Still, I believe the brain beats the sound waves attempting to combine and produce the center image. The brain does a better job at recombining the left-right data. Our mechanical transducers can not simply be made so precise.
Still the interesting thing is the fact that we can actually channel the sound to our advantage, and increase our enjoyment. The thing that freaks me out is that all this information was always in the musical data in the first place...
Not being able to leave well enough alone, I had a very old, tall, three-section room divider that I decided to put to work.
Being aware that the openings allow "leakage," I like it better than the previous room tune-type arrangement.
Stu,Yes, your tweak demonstrates how the brain constructs an internal sound-stage from the sound-waves heard from the speakers and channel-separators. In placing my head in the conventional external sound-stage between/ behind the speakers, the only music left there is above four feet after leaking over the panels from the speakers. There's zero reproduced-sound beneath.
Racks/ other obstructions of convenience against the central back-wall have previously paid a sonic price for disrupting the flow of leaking sound-waves. Now audiophiles can have their central racks, listen to their music free of that disruption and enjoy the other improvements.
DG
Edits: 05/20/15 05/20/15
Hi Dryginger,
WHat you say make me think to a...horn wich keep the sound in it's throat as long as possible...
Aupiho,
Please note that this is an exercise in traffic 're-direction' to prevent the cause of ongoing sound-wave crashes...
DG
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