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News Flash! Imaging and Pace, Rhythm & Timing are not the same thing.

>>>"Imaging and Soundstaging lets[sic] you actually see the musicians and their instruments in the mind's eye and more importantly the space between."

Gee, so I guess a mono recording leaves that little movie screen between your ears totally blank?

>>>"Visual" spatial effects are NOT artifacts of the recording process as the better the recording engineer and the reproducing system the more lifelike these spatial effects are."

I've spent hundreds of hours in recording studios, and the phony spatial effects I hear on the master tapes bear absolutely no resemblance to the reality of the recording environment (BTW, when was the last time you saw a drummer with four foot arms or a ten foot wide keyboard?). You may enjoy "looking" at your music, but if you're visualizing imaginary stages filled with imaginary 3D people and instruments, you may not be as "lost" in the music as you'd like to think.

>>>"Both PRaT and Imaging are important for the total enjoyment of music!"

I agree about PRaT; if the system screws that up, it's a lousy system, no matter how good it may be at throwing out musically irrelevant spatial effects. The same definitely cannot be said of a system that screws up imaging and soundstaging. Some of the most exciting, involving music reproduction I've ever heard came from gear that didn't image worth a damn.

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