Bloom air around instruments


How do you get air around instruments 
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How do you get air around instruments
Do you mean get the speakers to disappear?

Get better speakers. Most speakers have horrendous time coherence.

As a former recording engineer, I can tell you that there is no 'air' in the studio. In good rooms like Paramount, Sky Walker, Hit Factory, Oceanway, Capital A, etc. an acoustic guitar or piano sound much as it does in a small club.
Great answer by @folkfreak regarding setup of a system.
And air can only be heard if it's in the recording.
@ieales provides good comments about studio recording. The "air" and sense of space is artificially created by the engineer. But in a venue such as a church or the Musikverein concert hall there is natural reverb. But the end result of "air" and space on the recording is created by natural and artificial reverb, and only with proper mic'ing of acoustic instruments.


The PSB Imagine T2's are decent speakers which produce a wide and deep soundstage and are capable of disappearing. However, they are not very detailed.
If you are not getting the desired effect from recordings, the problem may lie upstream or with your room acoustics.