MarkS
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I agree! But I draw the opposite conclusion for auditioning: in stereo, other factors can dominate over tonality errors (which all speakers have anyway). So I want to audition in the format that I'm going to be listening to.Adding on, he said that when testing in stereo, the anchor got higher votes than in mono testing. In other words, listeners are less picky about the fidelity of a speaker in stereo. He explains that Stereo playback helps to mask tonality errors.
This makes no sense to me. If stictly true, it would mean that all speakers present the same imaging and soundstaging. But they don't. Directivity is the crucial measurement here.He also explains as I quoted that the imaging people talk about mostly comes from content and not any property of the speaker.