Very interesting responses - thanks, all. Several people said they want to hear the music as intended by the engineer. I guess I meant the question more generally: suppose you were making the recording as well as listening - what would be your goal? And for electronic music things are different, so let me restrict to unamplified instruments and voices for the moment.
Tom, that's an intriguing comment about the soundstage being more precise through speakers - it's something I've noticed many times as well. It may have to do with having exactly two speakers, with relatively small cones and radiating mostly forward. That's quite unlike any real instrument or voice, and it means more of what you hear will be direct (rather than reflected) sound. Could it be that the precise soundstaging is part of the problem - that it contributes to not-quite-right quality of all speakers? Adam, maybe what you need is perfect video reproduction as well, to create the illusion you're looking through an aperature into the concert hall. Michael, have you tried the Orion+ upgrade? I'm curious to know what the effect is on soundstage. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32374 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
