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  1. It's growing!I am guessing it's time to simply get to the meat of this fantasy of mine: that of electronically enlarging the size of the room. I...
  2. Grande Messe des mortsI'll continue with the story of the invention of an electronically scalable room but today wanted to tell you about something I've been listening to that...
  3. The audio show dreamMy revelation of the simple truth that we can never believe we are actually in the same room as live musicians, no matter how good the...
  4. Perfect?Perhaps I was a bit too literal in yesterday's post A Fool's Errand. Certainly the cues of the original recording space are a part of, and...
  5. A fool's errandPerhaps the best audio experience you could have would be to drag your stereo system to the original concert hall where a particular recording was made,...
  6. A fool's errandPerhaps the best audio experience you could have would be to drag your stereo system to the original concert hall where a particular recording was made,...
  7. How would you know?In yesterday's post The thing about skepticsI asked you to play along with my thought game. If you are in a perfectly quiet space in your...
  8. The thing about skepticsI wrote in yesterday's post Electronic Room that I had an out-of-the-box idea to share with you. This is just for fun and stimulation - and...
  9. The electronic roomReader Mark Fisher writes: "those who have worked on the problem longest and are most familiar with it are often those stuck in the deepest most...
  10. It's coming from everywhere!There are two primary types of reflections in a loudspeaker based stereo system: those that are created from the loudspeakers and those captured on the recording....
  11. It's coming from everywhere!There are two primary types of reflections in a loudspeaker based stereo system: those that are created from the loudspeakers and those captured on the recording....
  12. Reflect on thisIn yesterday's Paul's Post we discussed the effects of depth of soundstage, characterized by some as "layered depth" to describe the spacing in the horizontal plane...
  13. Left, right, front, back, up and downYesterday's post touched on layers of depth and I am thankful so many of you chimed in with your opinions - I learned a lot from...