Crossing Left and Right Speakers


Someone in, I believe Audiogon, recommended the Audio Analyst and I checked him out.

He stated that crossing left and right speaker can affect soundstage. How can that be? wouldn't it just reverse the left and right sides of the soundstage?

How could it do anything more?

Curious,

 

TD

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@jimmy2615 

 

"this recording is binaural"

 

THIS IS STARTING TO MAKE SENSE. That might be it !!!

 

@jimmy2615

 

 

I noticed instruments move to very strange illogical places in the stage.

@mceljo thank you for the kind comment. @tonydennison the phenomenon isn't super obvious unless you really stop and think 

There sound should be no different other than reversing the channels of the recorded output left to right and vice versa. 

Unless-

1) Something was inadvertently wired out of phase. 

2) The room acoustics affect the sound of the left and right speakers differently- e.g. reflections, absorbtions, reinforcement of different frequencies, back of room differences- e.g. one side open, one side closed off etc. 

Test this by reversing the output interconnects of the source channels.  If the sound is the same as reversing preamp outputs then it is because of room acoustics.