The analogy I've used is that the room you're in is detached and moved holus-bolus to the spot where the recording was made, and attached at the point of the speaker plane; your listening area becomes an extension to the recording "stage". As such how the overall sound comes across to you will depend in part on the acoustic behaviour of your room; if I don't feel I'm part of the venue, and want to be, I would just turn up the volume until the reaction of my room to the sound energy did the job; a competent system should have no trouble creating sufficient SPLs.I like the phrase "transports you to the venue." I have heard and owned some speakers that reportedly do this but in actual fact all they do is create the venue behind the speaker plane. As such, they give you a window on the venue but you as a listener are not in the venue.
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