In Reply to: Is soundstaging important? posted by Gary on April 19, 2016 at 17:44:02:
As Art and his predecessors on the topic such as Julian Vereker (founder of Naim) have pointed out, soundstaging has no musical significance. Thus if the purpose of the system is that of playing music then soundstaging is irrelevant.If one is looking for an accurate rendition of the original recorded event there is no way of easily judging the accuracy of the reproduction of the soundstage. One normally has no knowledge of the recorded environment. This subject becomes even more entangled when rock and pop recordings are accounted for where the acoustics of the room are not recorded and where any spacial effects occur they are synthetic.
However a system without any sense at all of a soundstage would to me , and I think most experienced listeners, sound wrong or unsatisfactory. Nevertheless you have to abandon any attempt at seeking accuracy in this respect as there is no standard to judge by and you simply have to accept plausibility only.
Edits: 04/20/16
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- RE: Is soundstaging important? - PAR 22:10:34 04/19/16 (12)
- "soundstaging has no musical significance." huh? - Analog Scott 07:48:44 04/21/16 (3)
- RE: "soundstaging has no musical significance." huh? - PAR 08:12:39 04/21/16 (2)
- "the reproduced experience." - Analog Scott 09:29:02 04/21/16 (1)
- RE: "the reproduced experience." - PAR 10:45:56 04/21/16 (0)
- Unless of course - E-Stat 07:40:26 04/20/16 (7)
- RE: Unless of course - mkuller 08:15:48 04/20/16 (6)
- RE: Unless of course - PAR 08:56:41 04/20/16 (5)
- RE: Unless of course - morricab 14:45:27 04/23/16 (1)
- RE: Unless of course - PAR 16:00:02 04/23/16 (0)
- RE: Unless of course - E-Stat 11:33:43 04/20/16 (0)
- RE: Unless of course - mkuller 09:53:10 04/20/16 (1)
- RE: Unless of course - ahendler 18:11:46 04/20/16 (0)