Is soundstage DEPTH a myth?


Ok, help me out fellas. Is it a myth or what?

I’m a good listener, I listen deep into the music, and I feel like I have good ears. But I can’t confirm that I can hear soundstage depth. I can hear 1 instrument is louder, but this doesn’t help me to tell if something is more forward or more behind. Even in real life and 2 people are talking, I can’t honestly say I know which one is in front.

The one behind will sound less loud, but is that all there is to soundstage depth? I think the answer I’m looking for has to do with something I read recently. Something about depth exist only in the center in most system, the good systems has depth all around the soundstage.

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The depth of the soundstage is determined by your equipment, venue, and recording. Assuming a good recording that can have depth… many. I don’t want to get off onto the details of this subject.

 

My system images well (see mine under my UserID). When I finished up positioning the speakers the soundstage would extend two or three feet beyond the speakers to the side and back about 4.5’ to the wall. Then I hung a very heavy tightly woven wool carpet on the wall… now the soundstage goes back into the wall two to four feet more depending on the recording.

In previous systems, initially the soundstage only extended to the wall. Then, upon careful tweaking the wall ceases to truncate the soundstage depth.