DualTriode
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IME this is mainly a recording related phenomenon.
On some recordings there is a lot of "venue sound" in the recording, this is particularly true of live recordings with a limited number of microphones. IME these sound the most realistic and best with narrow directivity speakers.
On most, particularly any since multi track recorders, studio recordings have no actual venue acoustic in the recording at all so, inevitably, at the mixing stage there may be a bit of artificial ambience added but basically there is nothing real there, then the listening room acoustic is probably pretty important in the creation of a space illusion. These sort of recordings will probably, therefore, sound more spacious using wider directivity speakers.
The way I see it, one is trying to reproduce the venue acoustics and the other trying to create the impression of one.
As ever the SQ of the recording is much more varied than the SQ of our equipment and what sounds most accurate to me for the old and live recordings I own, including my own, has been narrower directivity speakers, and since these are frequently my favourite recordings I use wider directivity speakers more rarely and put up with the loss of faux spaciousness.
Nothing faux here.
Reflections are a real. In-room response is real, not just an estimate in the software
If you want less in-room response, sit closer. If you want more in-room response, sit farther back.
I like sitting different places around the room, sometimes up close and personal and sometimes at the quieter table in the back, much like being there.
If you want a smaller sweet spot just for you, use narrower coverage angle speakers.
No one has talked about RT60, room treatments, or in room equalization.
Thanks DT