Soundstaging and Imaging: The Delusion about The Illusion


Soundstaging in a recording—be it a live performance or studio event—and it’s reproduction in the home has been the topic of many a discussion both in the forums and in the audio press. Yet, is a recording’s soundstage and imaging of individual participants, whether musicians or vocalists, things that one can truly perceive or are they merely illusions that we all are imagining as some sort of delusion?

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celander
You guys have WAY too much time on your hands.

Maybe volunteer at a local children's hospital or homeless shelter?

Stereo live for sure.
You guys can back to sleep, now. An obvious case of snarkolepsy. Sleepwalking and still snarky. 😴
In my simple way of viewing of things, "imaging" is when a speaker disappears so that sound is non-directional and more akin to a soft focus. I find this more achievable by 2 way speakers than 3 ways. 
That’s pretty good, but you might have missed the point of the OP, which is is imaging real? Sorry for the two is’s in a row.