As with Sharri, I do not hear air around the instruments. After reading numerous posts on this subject I was ready to do a system change for this very reason. I have a soundstage and the speakers disappear, but would have a difficult time telling where a musician is on stage unless playing a solo, especially with a full orchestra piece. I can generally sense where the musicians are with small groups as in rock or jazz. I have recently been attending many concerts which featured jazz as well as classical music and noted exaclty as stated above, that in general the music comes to me as a cohesive whole.
