[Gary Eickmeier]

"Robert Peirce" wrote in message
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The purpose of treating the listening room is to better hear the sound
field of the recording. If your room is untreated it adds its own
reflections. If the recording is bad it probably doesn't matter.

The sound FIELDS of the recording - the wide, spacious, set of direct and
early reflected and reverberant FIELDS -

cannot be reproduced

with just the DIRECT FIELD

from a pair of stereo speakers.

All of the direct, early reflected, and reverberant fields of the original
would be compressed into arriving from just those two points in space, not
from the original directions of the sounds that were recorded. This is very
audible.

That is the problem with stereo.

Gary Eickmeier