We've been over this before ( a lot!). There are studio tricks (using well documented and understood phase anomoly manipulations) to make sounds appear to come from well outside of the conventional soundstage - ie "between the speakers" - however I have to qualify this since most speakers radiate out in a rather vague cone and these cones do indeed extend beyond the physical walls of the speaker cabinets. All of the sound from both speakers will play a part in the perceived "stereo" soundstage - remember that both ears the sound from both speakers...just slightly differently.
By the way, try listening in mono...do you get a sound that appears to emanate solely from a point near the exact center of the speakers? - or do you get a more diffuse image that appears to occupy the space between the speakers and possibly beyond? - try it and see - you might be surprised by the results! Anyway, since the stereo soundstage that we perceive (regardless of how it was created) is actually created by our brains doing some pretty neat realtime processing of a totally artficial image pair + bunch of somewhat unpredictable reflections...anything is possible. If you have your speakers toed-in with the crossover point in front of, or near to, your ears I would expect the soundstage to be predominantly "between the speakers". That's one reason why (IMHO) it's a good idea to have your speakers as far apart as possible - it gives the widest (most impressive) soundstage. Some people have a fear of the "hole in the middle" effect but I've found with reasonable speakers and plenty of volume it's really hard to suffer from this in conventional rooms - even quite large ones. (obviously there are certain speakers - omni's, 'Bariks, some panels - that do not obey anything like the behaviour described above!) -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31032 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
