My first big audio eye-opener was listening to a friend’s HiFi system set up in the room over his garage. He probably had 3 or four systems set up, a ton of surplus overstuffed furniture and over a dozen speakers. But the sound filled the room, it wasn’t coming from any one set of speakers. The experience blew my mind, I’m going to myself, ‘I can hear the sound, but where is it coming from?’ After climbing over furniture to put my ear to several speakers, but never “finding” the ones producing the sound, I finally relaxed and enjoyed the music. He introduced me to a direct-to-disk recording of the 1812 Overture and a digital copy of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon 🌝 during that session.
I hope to have an experience like that of @tazdevl30 when I get my new-to-me XRT-20’s set up in my ‘room’ which should be the entire top floor of my split-level home. I can’t wait.