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Walk-in soundstage

Coupled with his Weiss DAC 204 and T+A DAC 200, Mr. Steve Huff claimed to have experienced the so-called "walk-in soundstage" when using the Lumin U2 as the streaming transporter. This refers to a deeply immersive, three-dimensional stereo image where the listener perceives the musical space as so realistic and spacious that it feels as if one could physically walk into the soundstage.

This level of presentation is notably different from the more common “layered” sound field that many average listeners or reviewers report—where the sound is merely projected in front of the listener with some layering or spatial envelopment.

I'm curious how many of you have also experienced this effect in your own systems and listening spaces. If you're open to sharing, I'd love to hear about the components and setup that helped you achieve it.

  

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ddgtt
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The most holographic and walk-in soundstage I've ever experienced is with Vivid Audio Giya G1 Spirit speakers (properly set up and with great electronics).  You feel like you can walk into the soundstage and shake the hands of the performers.

joeycastillo
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I speculate that this can be possible if speakers/amp and Room are in great synergy to create such an illusion. A well powered Maggie or ML or better still a MBL Radialstrahler in a room that is acoustically treated well to reproduce such an illusion.

closest I heard that has this illusion, but not truly walk in effect, was in a demo room that was well treated and speakers where Maggie 3.7 powered by Pass monoblocs. getting surreal 

g2the2nd
213 posts
 

 MBL room at last year’s CAF.

mihorn
717 posts
 

OP  "walk-in soundstage" "a deeply immersive, three-dimensional stereo image"

I liked above effects 10-30 years ago when hi-fi had nothing else going for. To accept these effects, I had to go through blurry vision, always tired, laziness, no energy, etc. because of the listener’s fatigue. And this immersive state in music session still stayed in my regular day time life (my ears are biased with immersive state) which gave me the listener’s fatigue against real natural sounds).

Above sound effects are due to un-natural hi-fi sounds, More I enjoy immersive sounds, I’m getting away from live music sounds. More above sound effects mean the audio sound more glare/veiled. You are walking into soundstage = you are walking into glare/veils (like the fog/distortion noise, not music field).

I was forced to listen my older reference cables with buyers 3 days ago and my ears became immersive hearing state (made me blurry vision, laziness, tired, no energy, etc.) and I was sick for a couple of days. My older cables sound so impressive that immersive ears don’t let me back to normal ears and still torture me after 3 days. I have more appointments with buyers and I’m very scared to hear these cable again. Alex/Wavetouch audio

macg19
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top line MBL (but not the extreme) with $500K of electronics in an untreated room sounded immersive- like the listening position didn’t matter anymore.

i can’t even imagine what that system would sound like in a fully treated room.

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