I posted awhile back about my lack of experience with a soundstage and dialling in. I've got the speakers positioned, I think, where they should be and with the new cables Klaus sent, I have a pretty good one. It's laid back, has quite a bit of depth and most instruments are very localized, at least as far as one can localize rock recordings. I have had to use the balance control on the Erleuchtung preamp very slightly. I'm pretty sure the slight imbalance is due to the room as the speakers are as close to equidistant as I can get them without hiring a surveyor.
I was listening to the New Radicals "Maybe You've been Brainwashed too!" awhile ago and heard some sounds definitely coming from the rear and to the left of me, this is while listening to two channels only and from my CD player. Klaus said it was the recording, not anything in my system. Last night I turned on VH1 classic rock and heard the same thing again, except this time from both sides and it sounded great, like the soundstage had exploded in width. I think it was Aerosmith's "Jamie's got a gun", but can't be positive. There's also a VH1 commercial that sounds the same way. The rest of the music is positioned pretty much between the speakers with a lot of depth. I'm running the audio from my TV and HTPC through a Classe SSP-30 before the Erleuchtung, but it's in stereo mode so it shouldn't be doing anything to the signal.
Has anyone else heard something like this with two channels? I'm wondering if this is just an oddity or whether I've got my speakers close enough to a position where some songs or sounds exhibit this super wide soundstage and some don't?
cheers,
Dick
