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In Reply to: Adding just a little bit of surround to stereo sources? posted by newtonnjd on March 25, 2007 at 15:47:47:
with just two speakers if you have the room and flexibility to play with diffusive treatment behind your listening position (and you have a fair amount of unobstructed space behind your chair). If you get it just right, with good recordings you'll sense (1) enhanced articulation of the soundstage's inner space that appears to extend the stage both laterally and fore-and-aft (2) and a better-defined, more fleshed-out (and better focused) sense of instrumental and vocal body, tonality, texture, and natural decay. The image remains ahead of you, but "speaker and wall invisibility" is enhanced, even with, in my case, Cardas-positioned 1.6 monoliths staring me in the face. It takes a fair amount of critical listening involving a lot of chair up-and-down until you get the diffusive placement and profile just right, but once you zero everything in, you realize just how much virtual reality you can muster out of two channels.I suspect that's similar to what you're hearing with your rear speakers in play, assuming that your surround mode is phase-differentiating rather than replicating the output of the left and right fronts. And I wouldn't assume a "weakness" in your placement of your MG 12's. If anything, the difference in what you hear between two-channel and surround-on modes may simply--and no pun intended--reflect what's going on (or isn't) in the aft part of your room.
Jim
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Follow Ups
- It's possible to get a similar effect... - Jim Treanor 17:38:56 03/25/07 (3)
- Ever hear of the "Hafler Hookup"? - HenryH 07:38:53 03/26/07 (2)
- Yep...and I had one... - Jim Treanor 09:01:24 03/26/07 (1)
- Yes. That's the kicker. The amplifier must be stable with a common ground. /nt\ - HenryH 10:38:40 03/26/07 (0)
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