I'm gonna cry here.....for what I've lost!!
In my old house with M3s as mains, I could sit in "my" chair and listen to stereo and have all the instruments fan out in perfect relation to where they were when the piece was recorded. Recording permitting. Some were on the front porch(with the door open) and some were to the side in the diningroom. Some were behind the TV in the garage with the wall removed. The lead singer stood "right there" at the plane of the TV and the back-up singers wore different color dresses. I sat seven feet from the plane of the speakers with the speakers about eight feet apart and the instruments were in an arc roughly 13 feet across.
It was magical. I didn't realize it at the time but the lay-out of that room and the dimensions of the room must have been near perfect.
My new listening room sucks.
