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In Reply to: Re: Is that necessarily a problem? posted by AP1 on March 6, 2007 at 08:50:40:
"The Chesky recording I referred to is puzzling to me since the soundstage there has plenty of space to place the instrument behind the speakers."Well, different components and systems throw different size soundstages. Image placement tends to be set relative to soundstage boundaries. The outer images will be further from the centre if the soundstage is wider, and closer if the soundstage is narrower. Dittto for front to back depth of images.
Perhaps those images aren't located at the speaker position in Chesky's studio. They may not be located at the speakers in some of your friend's systems. What you're noticing could well just be an artifact of your particular system and/or room.
I changed CDPs from a Thule CD150 to an Arcam FMJ CD33 a couple of years back. The soundstage and imaging changed quite noticeably when that occurred, even dramatically on some tracks. The positions at which particular performers were imaged changed with the change in soundstage size. Should I blame the recording because I prefer where something images with one player over where it images with the other? Is it likely that one of them produces exactly the imaging that the engineer heard in Chesky's studio?
I repeat, if something is imaged at the speaker at all times, there's probably something wrong. If it happens only occasionally on a few records, I don't think there's a problem or that anything is wrong.
David Aiken
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