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RE: Why i think soundstage rendering is very important.

Definitely room treatments. I got rid of HF reflection points with some room treatment and imaging helped, but the sound stage was still confined to the walls of the room and some recordings still sounded harsh. Some further adjustments to the cross-overs reduced the high frequency harshness without making recordings sound dull. Finally, when I got bass response flat from 30 Hz at my listening position through combination of cross-over adjustments and parametric EQ then the the sound stage expanded beyond the walls of the room on many recordings. (I expected bass lines to be more musically balanced, but did not anticipate the sound stage expansion. In retrospect it seems fairly obvious.)

Some work was also necessary on gain staging so that none of the op-amps in my DAC or powered speakers were overtaxed while retaining low level resolution.



Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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