----- Original Message ----- From: "Per-Olof Karlsson" <grovsnus72@hotmail.com>
All music portray some form of soundstage to the listener, even if it's not intentional. There is a sense of "direction" and "spatiality" in any type of music, e.g. from which direction is a certain sound coming from, where is the singer located, and so on.
Fair point I suppose. But surely that's more down to speaker placement and general features of the listening room rather than vinyl vs CD? (I might be wrong, I'm not knowledgeable about these things as I mentioned.)
Certain electronic music loves a good soundstage. Kraftwerk is one, Nine Inch Nails is definitely another, Tangerine Dream yet another.. Most of them actually :)
Yes, I agree, but my initial surprise was to do with how you were talking about speakers disappearing and natural sound which I think doesn't really make sense in the context of electronic music.
Granted, with acoustic music, especially live performances, the differences may be much easier to hear, but when you're accustomed to a great soundstage, you just can't live without it. Everything after that sounds "flat" and "dull" - much like your average MP3 file would.
Hmm, I'm not sure my musical experience would be sufficiently enriched by expensive hi-fi equipment to justify the cost of it. But then again, I've never had the chance to listen to my favourite music on some state of the art equipment. But nah, as long as there's some proper bass I'm happy. ;) I'd rather spend my money on music to be honest. Erik