Soundstage and image height, does it exist?


On another site, there is a discussion on soundstage, and there are a few people clamming, that, since there is no vertical information encoded on stereo recordings, that soundstage height does not actually exist. It is a product of our minds filling in missing information. 

Are they correct?

Please explain your position, with as much technical details as you feel needed.

 

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Showing 3 responses by jasonbourne52

The Pipe Dreams speaker comes to mind - a favorite of Harry Pearson! It too was a tall line source.

A narrow floor-to-ceiling line source like the Carver speaker will do this better than any speaker with multiple drivers of varying sizes (B&W, Focal, Magico, Wilson ... as examples).

Third, I can recall listening to the astounding width and height of the sound field produced by the Harold Beveridge ESL (back in '78).