Measuring the Magic?

Speaker Asylum

General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Is there any scientific way to assess, quantify, identify, or validate:
The dimensionality (height, width, depth) of the soundstage. 3-D or not 3-D...
The "suchness" of sound. Sometimes, voices and instruments just sound more like themselves...
The body or corporalness (corpulence?) of the individual sonic images. 3-D or not 3-D, yet again...
The amount of "air" between and around the instruments and voices.
The accuracy of overall tonal balance and presentation: How much does it sound like what the recording engineers' devices actually recorded?
Just curious. But it would sure make the asylum dull if there WERE such instruments; all debate would shorten or cease ... or perhaps the ammunition of opinion would just be replaced with the ammunition of science....
Cheers! (That sound to you exactly like they sound to me.... And how the hell do you determine that?! :-)
Tom

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Topic - Measuring the Magic? - tpcarter 12:39:21 02/19/07 (5)

I believe it can be done ..... - Tom C 10:25:28 02/20/07 (0)

The soundstage (stereo's " phantom images") are an illusion in our brains and can't be measured ... yet - Richard BassNut Greene 08:13:31 02/20/07 (1)

Re: The soundstage (stereo's " phantom images") are an illusion in our brains and can't be measured ... yet - tpcarter 09:44:18 02/20/07 (0)

Read this article - Russ57 13:10:02 02/19/07 (1)

Re: Read this article - tpcarter 09:59:04 02/20/07 (0)

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