Hey guys,
As my system gets better and the soundstage grows wider and deeper, I feel like the way drums are mixed, it doesn't seem realistic, especially on modern recordings. They keep pushing the cymbals to the far edge of the soundstage. So you have the ride cymbal and crash on opposite sides most of the time. My speakers are 2m80cm apart, when you factor in the edges of the sounstage that goes well beyond the speaker boundary, it must be something like 3.5 - 4m total sound stage. The drums feel unrealistically big most of the time. Maybe they are focusing on the headphone users more than the speaker community? Do you experience this too?
As my system gets better and the soundstage grows wider and deeper, I feel like the way drums are mixed, it doesn't seem realistic, especially on modern recordings. They keep pushing the cymbals to the far edge of the soundstage. So you have the ride cymbal and crash on opposite sides most of the time. My speakers are 2m80cm apart, when you factor in the edges of the sounstage that goes well beyond the speaker boundary, it must be something like 3.5 - 4m total sound stage. The drums feel unrealistically big most of the time. Maybe they are focusing on the headphone users more than the speaker community? Do you experience this too?