Having that immersive 3-d experience is the ultimate goal for an audiophile. As many said above, you need a good system, a good room, take care of vibrations & room acoustics, and have a good if not great recording. I believe that the most critical component of generating this 3-d soundstage is the preamplifier and the cables (assuming a good recording). My 3-d image really got to where it blew me away with the Soulution 725 preamplifier and tara labs the one cables. The cables really frame the rear of the soundstage, and the preamp is guilty of adding all that gooey goodness.
3-Dimensional Soundstage
I have appreciated a quite nice separation of instruments in my system's soundstage. I have read many times about people experiencing depth in their music and have never appreciated this. I was talking to an audiophile friend this week about it and he brought up the fact that recorded music is a mix of tracks and how could there be any natural depth in this? If there was a live recording then yes, it is understandable, but from all studio music that is engineered and mixed, where would we get depth? Are the engineers incorporating delays to create depth?
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I had a beautiful 3-d soundstage before. Its just better, now (should be with a $60k preamp)I didn't say it generated it, what it does is reveal it. My prior preamp was a Jeff Rowland Criterion and it was excellent, but bested by the Soulution 725 as it was even quieter than the JR. The thing here is removing all the noise and all the vibrations so that you can hear all of the sound. Stillpoints and SRA bases really shined a bright light on the 3-d sound stage. |
@lonemountain - I agree 100% which is why I went with stats in my 12 X 16 (small) room. No first order reflections. Also, as for room size and bass, problem, in my opinion, can only be solved by applying real eq (parametric, not graphic) at, probably 200hz or 250 hz and below. Bass in a small room will always smudge the lower midrange at any reasonable listening level. |