Home Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Agreed...

I just have not heard too many speakers that do imaging poorly because it can be positioned differently and it depends where you sit.

My speakers are designed for near corner placement and have no problems in either department but you need to sit furether back to get it. Pulling them way out into the room for a "normal" free-standing position you can sit closer but the trade-offs are far too vast for me. In the corners the stage is as big as the wall and with treatments sound like ti extends beyond the walls (certainly in depth as Loreena McKennitt has a track where it a procession is coming ftoward me from a distance that must be 50 feet past the wall.

All of these things are soundstage and imaging issues but I don;t care enough about them because few speakers have had me say wow what crappy imaging (many speakers I don;t like but this was not one of the problems). Usually for me now is that I feel I need to turn the amp knob up to make things out as if I'm missing mopst of what is in the midrange. Basically if a speaker can't play well at low volum then it has no hope of playing at high level. Microdynamics? does the piano have the full weight and body of the structure of the instrument or do I just get the hint of that but a big PINGY sound.

The B&W N801 the monster that it is physically is one of the only speakers that managed to dissapear in front of me entirely and this was off an 11 watt SET. In another room it was a total dull disaster.

Interestingly, I think my speakers need to be in corners for them to dissapear - and then lest not us all forget that the recording has a say in this as well.


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