What am I hearing


On a very select few of my recordings in my collection I hear this "Mind Trickory"as I would call it..If I could describe what I'm hearing is a "SUPER" holographic image.It's like they took certain instruments from the recording and recorded them out of phase.These "Super Images"as I would also call them are very pleasing to the ears..It really plays tricks with my ears.Some of the recordings that do this are-Roger Waters"amused to death"(perticularly the dog barking in the first track and the old man being interviewed)- Grover Whasington jr."winelight"(certain parts)-Blood Sweat & Tears.(certain parts)-Willie & loobo"fantago nights"-Norman Brown"After the storm"..etc.At certain parts of these CD's it almost sounds like you have headphones on.Whould anybody else know what other CD's give you this sound.

Thanks
spaz
There is a track on Ginger Baker's "Going Back Home" (I think #3) where Bill Frisell's guitar sounds likes it's coming from way off to the right and way in front of the speakers. I have a door in to the room near there and it sounds like he is outside the door.

Excellent album by the way.
Electroid....is what you are descriding the same as Polk's SDA effect from year ago?
To Muncybob-Yes! That psychoacoustic affect was patented by a small Maryland company in 81-82 called Psi-coustics. They were friends of mine. They did it with a solid state tape loop device (like an Eq) Within a few years another Maryland company, Polk Audio, patented the circuit at speaker level with their SDA line. My guess is they had one of the early units. Radio Shack bought or leased the IMX patent from Psi-coustics and had it in some of their EQ's as well. I like the last Polk SDA's that did not have the tweeters as part of the circuit. We humans get little or no location cues above 3K. Properly set up they have the biggest and best image possible. This affect is recording dependent of course. It does nothing to a mono signal and can give a bit of a hole in the middle on some recordings. But on the right recording there is nothing better for involvement in the stereo image. I still use a set of their best model: SDA SRSA 1.2 TL. quite often. Lots of fun! Freaks people out when they hear it. They look around for other speakers.