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Soundstage

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What the heck is Soundstage I hear all about it....but clueless to what it is?
 
Soundstage is about the space between the instruments in order to create a realistic 3 dimensional image. A "good" soundstage usually involves extended, controlled, uniform dispersion from a loudspeaker. The best ways to achieve this is usually through either a coaxial driver like you see with KEF or TAD, or with a large waveguide on the tweeter to match the directivity of the woofer in the crossover region like you see with Amphion or Revel.
 
pippenainteasy said:
Soundstage is about the space between the instruments in order to create a realistic 3 dimensional image. A "good" soundstage usually involves extended, controlled, uniform dispersion from a loudspeaker. The best ways to achieve this is usually through either a coaxial driver like you see with KEF or TAD, or with a large waveguide on the tweeter to match the directivity of the woofer in the crossover region like you see with Amphion or Revel.
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Great explanation but I've heard soundstage from all sorts of stuff even cheaper setups. Sure the bigger rigs with more space, bigger room and better response/clarity win here by a big margin, but most speakers/amps can do it, with a big but attached.

The real trick is setup of the speakers. Hell even these cheap logitechs infront of me currently (torture after my home rig) with only 60cm spacing have a moderate soundstage. This trick is to have an isosceles triangle or equilateral triangle to the listening point.

At home my workstation/desk is directly behind the centre of the couch, so I aim/setup my speakers to target this point. On the couch the spacing is wider (so the soundstage is a little more useful for 2-3 people) and at my desk it's perfectly aligned to each side of my head/ears. It sounds like certain instruments or effects are taller than the roof and arranged very nicely around the room as they would be in a band.
 
A small ~2.5" full-range driver definitely would produce excellent imaging, it just has other problems which the 2-way or 3-way system tries to solve for (primarily non-linear distortion, but also lack of extended frequency response).
 
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