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Is that necessarily a problem?

Posted by David Aiken (A) on March 5, 2007 at 22:46:27

In Reply to: Re: thanks guys, another couple of questions posted by AP1 on March 5, 2007 at 13:28:08:

We tend to think about sound being localised at the speaker as not being desirable but if you've got a soundstage extending from outside the left speaker to outside the right speaker, and also from just in front of the plane of the speakers to a fair distance behind them, as I have on many recordings, then you have to accept that it's possible on occasion that the 'correct' place in that soundstage for a performer will, on occasion, fall where the speaker is. Soundstages really don't come like swiss cheese, but with the holes conveniently placed where the speakers are located.

There's definitely a problem if there is always sound localised at one or both speakers, regardless of recording. If it happens only occasionally on some particular records, and never on others, then I think it's just the way things were placed when the particular record concerned was mastered. It happens with my system occasionally but it's not an issue on most recordings. I'm satisfied that it's just the way that particular recording is.

Chesky discs often throw a wide soundstage on my system and the wider the soundstage is, the more likely I think this is to happen. I also have discs which throw a very narrow soundstage with all performers placed very close to centre. There are some things which simply boil down to a choice by the engineer in the studio, and soundstage width and performer location within that soundstage are two of those things.

David Aiken

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