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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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mihorn
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I’ve been enjoying the unnatural sound (just like everybody here) for 4 decades. Now I have a natural sound system and I don’t think about upgrade anymore and I am enjoying more music.

It is perfectly fine you enjoy the unnatural sound (immersive 3-d, magical sounds, etc). We didn’t have any other options before anyway. Now there is another option which is recreation of the original music. I just want to point out to new comers to audio that they need to know what they are facing (natural sound and audiophile sound). Also, general public will understand better what audiophiles are. Some people call us audio-fools (or nuts) because they think audiophiles pay so much for bad sounds (to their ears). Alex/WTA

mihorn
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deep_333

@mihorn I think you may have got the "unnatural" mixed up...

How the sound materializes from the instruments and are perceived by the ears thereafter (like flowers blooming and closing perhaps inside a 3D dome of space)

Thank you for detailed kind explanation!

Yes. I know the sound images blooming and disappearing in the air. Those effect and quality make me stayed in audio for decades. My system can do that better than any other systems since my systems background very quiet. I had Avalon Eclips and Jadis Defy-7 almost 20 years ago and those were pretty good, but they are not even close to what I have now.

What I mean by unnatural sound is a left speaker in below. Alex/WTA

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