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In Reply to: RE: "The Sound stage is wide" posted by BigguyinATL on February 20, 2015 at 11:43:20
...the mono center is about 4 feet wide
What exactly is the criteria for determining "mono center width"?
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When you play a mono band limited pink noise signal - how wide does my brain think the imaginary center source is.
FYI - I've dinked around with the positioning of the 901's and with the faces parallel to the rear wall about 2-3 feet away the center image has shrunk to an acceptable size. The high frequency level has suffered a bit for that move - since the listening position is now 30 degrees off axis.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
Well to me a speaker that has produced the narrowest image - width and height would be the most resolving. For me, stereo is too confusing - so dependent on source material. Sure - I have a test tone that moves from left to right based on a pan - and another signal that moves the phase of one channel relative to the other. One of these days I'm going to make a good M-S recoding of a single loudspeaker in an anechoic environment and create a series of image placement positions based on level and phase.
I always start in mono when evaluating loudspeakers. Or other devices. In fact I'll listen to just one loudspeaker playing music way before I switch to mono through stereo - I get a far better idea of the way the timber is carried through and how directive the loudspeaker is.
Good thing I have a good relationship with a couple of my retailers near me. I even get to do real ($$$) work for them now and then.
Happy listening....
FYI teaching Seminars in MLPS this spring. I think I'd enjoy getting together.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
I've always approached it from the opposite end. How realistic is the stereo image?
The high frequency level has suffered a bit for that move
Which was poor to begin with using midrange drivers!
Well, have fun with your experiments.
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