Bloom air around instruments


How do you get air around instruments 
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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.

When they went all digital TV they lost the air that was there in abundance with the analog signal, a huge spacious soundstage, especially noticeable on live football 🏈 baseball ⚾️ and olympics ⛷ broadcasts. Very similar to the difference between tape and CD, now that I think about it. Tape breathes, it’s a natural medium. When you can breathe you get more...air. 🤗
^^^ nonsense

The OP says in his profile "I saw a holographic sound stage at a guys home about 20 yrs ago.It seemed as though you could walk between or stand behind the performers.No one believes me"

Come on over. I’ve had holographic systems for 40+ years.

The PSB Imagine T2 will never image properly. Do the math on arrival and reflections from 3 woofers below 500Hz. The woofers have horrible resonances right in the middle of the mid-range. See Fig 3 https://www.stereophile.com/content/psb-imagine-t2-tower-loudspeaker-measurements

Also see Fig 7. There is no step response, so the time is confused.