Aloha.
Zen Hi Fi Koan day, plus a break in the action at work.
So, Big Mike and I were at a Los Angeles Hi Fi salon (I forget the name, but they carried Chario speakers) back in 1992 and there was this guy listening to a pair of N.E.A.R. speakers.
I sat down on the listening couch as he listened and asked him how he liked what he heard.
"Pretty great," he said.
I asked, "Does it bother you that only one speaker is working?"
He said, "No way!"
He jumped up, and sure enough, only the left channel was working.
He said, "Well, that sucks."
I said, "Yeah, but that one speaker really images well, doesn't it?"
He said, "One speaker can image?"
I said, "You tell me."
Anyway, the salesman stepped in to make things better, but the encounter haunts me...can one speaker image?
On the flip side...this past month, I went to a friend's house for dinner, and he was playing his digital source via a pair of relatively well regarded sub-500 dollar speakers.
There was NO IMAGING.
None.
Zip.
Zilch.
Nada.
He saw me listening and asked if I was impressed. I said, "Sure," but I didn't tell him it was because, as far as I can remember, I have never heard NO IMAGING.
Throw any old pair of speakers together, and some imaging will happen, even if by accident. They may suck, but imaging of some sort is going to occur.
This NO IMAGING things was a rare experience, indeed.
Have any of you ever heard a stereo with no imaging?
I'm not talking about one speaker behind a couch and the other in the rafters, this is a stereo pair set up in stereo configuration question.
And, if you ever have heard NO IMAGING, how does that happen?
This was incredible - two absolutely distinct sound sources that only allowed one to hear two independent sound sources. You could hear exactly where each speaker was, but that was it!
I'm boggled.
Aloha.
Zen Hi Fi Koan day, plus a break in the action at work.
So, Big Mike and I were at a Los Angeles Hi Fi salon (I forget the name, but they carried Chario speakers) back in 1992 and there was this guy listening to a pair of N.E.A.R. speakers.
I sat down on the listening couch as he listened and asked him how he liked what he heard.
"Pretty great," he said.
I asked, "Does it bother you that only one speaker is working?"
He said, "No way!"
He jumped up, and sure enough, only the left channel was working.
He said, "Well, that sucks."
I said, "Yeah, but that one speaker really images well, doesn't it?"
He said, "One speaker can image?"
I said, "You tell me."
Anyway, the salesman stepped in to make things better, but the encounter haunts me...can one speaker image?
On the flip side...this past month, I went to a friend's house for dinner, and he was playing his digital source via a pair of relatively well regarded sub-500 dollar speakers.
There was NO IMAGING.
None.
Zip.
Zilch.
Nada.
He saw me listening and asked if I was impressed. I said, "Sure," but I didn't tell him it was because, as far as I can remember, I have never heard NO IMAGING.
Throw any old pair of speakers together, and some imaging will happen, even if by accident. They may suck, but imaging of some sort is going to occur.
This NO IMAGING things was a rare experience, indeed.
Have any of you ever heard a stereo with no imaging?
I'm not talking about one speaker behind a couch and the other in the rafters, this is a stereo pair set up in stereo configuration question.
And, if you ever have heard NO IMAGING, how does that happen?
This was incredible - two absolutely distinct sound sources that only allowed one to hear two independent sound sources. You could hear exactly where each speaker was, but that was it!
I'm boggled.