Please Read and express your feelings and opinions....

Another perspective. I attend a fair amount of live, acoustic, concerts and IMHO none of them have the soundstage that many audio systems have.

The whole imaging and soundstaging thing is a parlor trick inside a parlor trick that was perpetrated by The Absolute Sound. All it has helped to do is to take the focus off of correct tonal balance and put it on, IMHO, what is, at best, an artifact of the recording process.

The whole imaging and soundstaging thing is a parlor trick inside a parlor trick that was perpetrated by The Absolute Sound. All it has helped to do is to take the focus off of correct tonal balance and put it on, IMHO, what is, at best, an artifact of the recording process.

Now there is a post with some substance that I agree with!

kosst_amojan
The statement Geoff made about spacial cue not being measurable is patently false and we do measure it and replicate it through all manner of trickery at the recording and play back ends.

@costco_emoji - What the ding ding are you talking about? First of all, I did not make any such statement. I did not say spatial cue could not be measured. There is much more to “soundstage” than some spatial cues. Period. It’s not nice to shove words down someone’s throat.

The soundstage in all of its glory, it’s dimesionality, it’s transparency, it’s gestalt, details, it’s ...realism, etc., is right there on the recording. All that’s required is to dig it out of the grooves by hook or crook. That’s why audiophiles go to extremes, you know, tweaks and isolation, chicken bones if they would help, to extract the soundstage and *all the information* that’s “hidden” there. We don’t want you guys replicating anything. Didn’t you understand my previous comment. Stay out of the high end! We don’t want you replicating anything, faking the soundstage, removing tape hiss or compressing dynamics.

Half you people deserve to be on a soundstage where we can watch you state all the silly statements you make and make fools of your selves,  destroy the topic and its intent. Some people never grow up and shed their childish egos. 

@amg56.....What half are you referring to ?, although I suspect which half.