Here's a dumbo answer! You're no longer listening to all of the soundstaging clues and you are listening just to the music when you are in a nearby room. If your equipment is not matched and optimally set up the angst you experience in not getting that pure holographic sound effect from the sweet seat will destroy the 'music', or even if it is perfectly matched and set up you will just sit and bask in the glory of your systems sound and still not listen to the 'music'.
For some the reduction in high frequency response might also be more reminiscent of live music.
FWIW I used to have a system in my office. It was distracting, not the music, just the 'sound effects' or lack there of. I now listen to my main system a room and a wide hall away and love it so much more.
For some the reduction in high frequency response might also be more reminiscent of live music.
FWIW I used to have a system in my office. It was distracting, not the music, just the 'sound effects' or lack there of. I now listen to my main system a room and a wide hall away and love it so much more.