Post by drtrey3 on Oct 29, 2013 10:50:00 GMT -5
Well, my modest system is really sounding wonderful lately, and the wife and I have been so enjoying it. Thank you to Emotiva for great products we could afford and tips and hints from you guys to tweak the system. But on to the post proper.
So I was listening to some Tomita that came up on the random play from by Squeezebox through my XDA-2 to the UMC-200 to the UPA-200 (Area 51 buy!!!!) through the speaker wires (another Area 51 buy from the previous year) to my XRM 6.2s The specific track was Mars from Tomita's version of the planets. It is very electronic and playful and I had to put down the paperwork I was doing to listen when it hit me, I was hearing stuff behind me. This is from a two channel source listening in the direct mode, so there was no multi-channel stuff going on with my processor. But there it was, weird, phazey stuff happening behind and around the sides of the listening area, way away from the usual stereo soundstage.
How does the recording do that? Is it out of phase material that my brain thinks is behind me? I did not turn off the multi channel amp to make sure, but this was my Squeezebox playing a stereo file through the UMC set to direct. So how did the recording do that?
Trey
So I was listening to some Tomita that came up on the random play from by Squeezebox through my XDA-2 to the UMC-200 to the UPA-200 (Area 51 buy!!!!) through the speaker wires (another Area 51 buy from the previous year) to my XRM 6.2s The specific track was Mars from Tomita's version of the planets. It is very electronic and playful and I had to put down the paperwork I was doing to listen when it hit me, I was hearing stuff behind me. This is from a two channel source listening in the direct mode, so there was no multi-channel stuff going on with my processor. But there it was, weird, phazey stuff happening behind and around the sides of the listening area, way away from the usual stereo soundstage.
How does the recording do that? Is it out of phase material that my brain thinks is behind me? I did not turn off the multi channel amp to make sure, but this was my Squeezebox playing a stereo file through the UMC set to direct. So how did the recording do that?
Trey
