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kosst_amojan
@geoffkait

Yeah, you did. Anybody can go back and look.

>>>>>Prove it. Talk is cheap.

Kosst_ feel free to consider my perspective anything that you care to, however I use mini monitors that image quite well. I just fail to hear that type of imaging in the concert hall. And, of course, my hearing could certainly be suspect.

I will say that, years ago, when I used Altec 19s, JBL Apollos and Klipsch Cornwalls that presentational aspect of the sound had greater veracity to the concert hall, however the diversions from tonal correctness were a bit hard to live with.

I think that we pick the distortions that we can live with in the end. So in my case it’s not a result of owning speakers that don’t image well, but simply a preference for what I believe is a closer representation of concert hall sound.

I would ask do you hear this kind of imaging in the concert hall? If you don’t then it is fair to say that is an artifact of the recording/reproduction process, though, to some, a pleasant one.

And I think that it is an intentional misreading of my post to say that I suggest that good soundstage and tonal accuracy are, in some way, mutually exclusive. What I said was the Absolute Sound took the emphasis off of tonal correctness when began to focus, almost solely, on aspects of soundstaging. But you knew that’s what I said.

The Third Half strikes me as an excellent name for a bar.

@geoffkait 

"That is illogical, Captain. We actually can not (rpt not) measure soundstage height or any other dimension, the sound characteristics of the recording venue, sweetness, warmth, presence, wetness, bass tautness, transparency, glare, things of that nature. As I read your manifesto, the ability to measure anything is pretty much your whole premise.Better luck next time."

There it is, you liar. 2 pages back. 

@viridian 

The vast majority of the concerts I've been to have been outside and powerfully amplified. The few events I've attended in an auditorium without amplification aren't something I'd enjoy hearing in my living room. I wouldn't want a recording that sounded 50 to 75 feet away. Trying to capture that essence is of low to no priority to me. Very little of what I listen to is recorded in a live performance setting. It's mostly studio work. Live recordings really don't have much depth or image specificity, generally, unless they're very artfully recorded to capture that in a venue set up specifically to capture that. I know tone chasers are a different bunch. I don't really understand the more extreme of that crowd. I think I and them are using stereos for very different purposes.