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Roger Water's "Amused to Death" has Q Sound encoding which can place sound as convincingly around behind you, you'd think there were actual surround speakers. Chesky Records has some recordings which can also do this. The trick to hearing this level of imaging is to have as little of the room influencing the sound as possible. Place your speakers well out into the room, about 1/3rd of the room from all walls and sit well away from any wall. Generally, more directional speakers are able to isolate the sound of the recording from reflections from the room, and thus convey the imaging which is actually in the recording verses what is added from the room. Room sound can produce 'envelopment', but this is not the sound of the recording - its the sound of the room. In a strict sense, I'd call room sound 'distortion'.
I agree that it's a room sound but I would not call it 'distortion'. More like a lively live like sound.
Like I said I work at a casino, this was at the old location. So we had Musicians walking around the Floor, don't recall the instruments, accordion and something else. Anyway their sound had a quality to it I seldom hear from live bands. I would say it had something to do with treble frequencies and room reflections. IMO that is the sound that I try to replicate with my stereo.