What quality (s) at minimum must a system have to allow you to even suspend disbelief even for a moment? Soundstaging? Imaging? Tonality? Dynamics? Micro-dynamics? Sense of space? Bass? Texture? Ease?
No three things turn me off faster, are deal breakers and kill that illusion faster than pancake thin, two dimensional images, a lack sense of space and a lack of tone color. (that is maybe with the exception of upper midrange aberrations!) I must feel like there is a focused, three dimensional radiating body on say a string trio; instruments a harmonic envelope; and on live recordings or great classical recordings the feeling of them playing in a club or hall, not an anaechoic chamber.
No three things turn me off faster, are deal breakers and kill that illusion faster than pancake thin, two dimensional images, a lack sense of space and a lack of tone color. (that is maybe with the exception of upper midrange aberrations!) I must feel like there is a focused, three dimensional radiating body on say a string trio; instruments a harmonic envelope; and on live recordings or great classical recordings the feeling of them playing in a club or hall, not an anaechoic chamber.
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