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Here is a test track which will play clip of male and female voice recorded at various position. I use this track to setup my system so that the system could reproduce the exact position during the playback. I will mark the chart and compare with the original position. It is also a good way to demo your system's accuracy by asking visitors to mark the chart. For an example, say, one excerpt of the sound was 15 degrees to the right and hopefully the listener's would mark an "11" around there on the chart. The chart The interesting part of the recording is that you l

...What for? It's been reviewed by Erin (see above), Stereophile, Soundstage... How exciting... 🙄...

...The Giesemann EVA burn in performance after 15 days. The soundstage is much wider and deep....

...There is definitely merit to spdif investigations. I did a further test this morning and the soundstage is better constructed using spdif, with a noticeable increase in soundstage height compared to USB (and my USB set up is pretty darn good). This is through speakers of course. I will also try spdif with the warm filter as well, as it might keep the soundstage and bring the signature closer to USB compared to the neutral filter. ...

...ual instruments separately (in space and often time), have vocalists in booths, etc., then create a soundstage (artificial) in the digital audio workstation. Re. prioritizing soundstage v other qualities in our systems, I think both, but the first priority for me is accuracy to tonal qualities (i.e. if I could only have one). Even before stygian bass- "you have to get the midrange right." As I think about it, I would rather listen i...

...olt's Audio Glossary, https://www.stereophile.com/reference/50/index.html soundstaging, soundstage presentation The accuracy with which a reproducing system conveys audible information about the size, shape, and acoustical characteristics of the original recording space and the placement of the performers within it. imaging The measure of a system's ability to float stable and specific phantom images, reproducing the origi...

...I was joking, the camera and mic are moving during the recording hence the soundstage is moving too.....

...usic, thank you for this very detailed review. Can you help me understand what you mean by a curved soundstage? Also what do you mean when SLP and SRP are shifted further left and right in the soundstage? Do you mean that the L and R images appear to be coming right from the speakers themselves or from outside the speakers towards the side walls?...

...Soundstage is mentioned quite frequently as the argument against measurements. As in "we don't know how to measure a soundstage". I've encountered this argument plenty of times myself....

...Meaning, that there was a stronger sense of a soundstage with the vinyl? The rest of your post implies that; and adds the proviso that it's probably "LP distortion" - anyway, if so, then rest easy, grasshopper 😜 ... the soundstage is what's on the recording - it's up to the particular digital chain to lift its game, to match that of the vinyl ... 😉....

...Though the example of soundstage that is often given seems to me a bad one, since playing around with phase can move perceived location and expand or contract soundstage pretty precisely....

...Going back to Greene's apparent lacuna on 'soundstage' for a moment. After stating his straw man he says this : Since no one has any idea of what kind of soundstage ought to arise from most recordings, soundstage is not really a sensible criterion for evaluation of anything. Hmm, dismissive over-much? In the course of my DAC development in the past week or so I've uncovered (in the limited context of multibit DAC design) s...

...Stereophile has been measuring equipment for years and so has Soundstage, and several European magazines. Why all this excitement with ASR?...

...More goodness coming in part 2 tomorrow...full 360 degree soundstage!...

...menon. It is an interplay from the speakers, room, and ears. It is how our brain then discerns that soundstage. It may be we are so used to hearing music live, that we naturally and automatically assign soundstage to the music. I mean from a studio, how can one actually have a soundstage when, in these times, people record alone and then compile those recordings?...

... all of them). I think from my own experience and reading that of others who have heard or owned SR soundstage enhancers that the word "holographic" used above is a good description of the house sound SR wants to create. I have an SR orange fuse that was installed by the manufacturer in the Sonore power supply for my opticalRendu, so I can't truly evaluate its impact (because I can't remove/replace/compare to another fuse for that dev...

... suitable for red book, but for Hi-Res from 88.2kHz. Very nice transients combined with a very good soundstage....

...Thanks @bobfa - how is the soundstage depth on these? I am used to open baffle LX521’s which present a different soundstage to what you’d get off traditional box speakers. Do these speakers have ‘presence’?...

...All SR fuses generally lose some edge and deepen and widen their soundstage with improvement in the presence region. I have a mixture of Orange, Blue and Red in my system, all good in different ways....

...Try this one for good SQ, soundstage. 20th Anniversary remaster Blues In My Heart. Track 'Canned Heat' has some nice percussion....

...I20HE and the PS Audio PWT (both I2S). The DI20HE sounds better imho than the USB direct input, the soundstage of the DI is slightly deeper in comparison. I also prefer the coffee USB against solid silver (i.e. Nimak black). PLL is always on, soundstage width and depths is more neat. The burn in process should not be underrated in my opinion and logging with the DI takes a few seconds when sample format is changed, the direct USB input is way fas...

...Is soundstage a physical property of sound or something derived by the brain, i.e., perceived?...