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What does "Imaging" mean?

post #1 of 6
1/24/12 at 5:23pm
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Does "imaging" mean basically the same thing as positioning? 

 

It thought it meant how a headphone sort of visually "draws" and outlines an image of an object in a 3d space (the soundstage).  For example I'm using the word imaging to say say headphone A "images" the acoustic bass (like in a jazz quartet) to be taller/larger and have more weight/mass to it than headphone B which "images" the bass to be shorter and lighter/hollow.

 

If that's not correct, what term do you all use for the above ^?

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post #2 of 6
1/24/12 at 5:30pm

For me, there are two types of imaging. How real the soundstage is to what genre of music your playing, and how realistic the instruments and vocalist sounds. So, like the HD800 for example, it has great imaging because it sounds like the real thing, simple as that. Also, IMO, the HD800 renders instruments very close to the real thing. So, in basic terms, imaging is how well a headphone or speaker can sound to the real things thats' being played live or spread out on a real stage.

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post #3 of 6
1/24/12 at 5:34pm

Taken from the Glossary of terms:

 

Imaging - The sense that a voice or instrument is in a particular place in the room.

 

If you check this section, im sure it will make things clear. 

 

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post #4 of 6
1/24/12 at 5:45pm
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Originally Posted by fabio-fi View Post

Taken from the Glossary of terms:

 

Imaging - The sense that a voice or instrument is in a particular place in the room.

 

If you check this section, im sure it will make things clear. 

 


^ At least this is what I refer to with imaging (or positioning which is an easier word to understand). So basicly how clear it positions different instruments/vocals/whatever in the percieved soundstage.

 


Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 1/24/12 at 5:47pm
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post #5 of 6
1/24/12 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by fabio-fi View Post

Taken from the Glossary of terms:

 

Imaging - The sense that a voice or instrument is in a particular place in the room.

 

If you check this section, im sure it will make things clear. 

 



Thanks, I've already read that though and the definition makes it sound the same as "positioning" - which is why I asked if they were the same or different terms in my first post.

 

So what would be the correct term for what I'm trying to describe in my first post?  Say two headphones have the same size soundstage, but one headphone makes the object seem larger when you visualize it, or one headphone makes the object seem more etched out or sharpened visually, or one headphone gives the object more mass in the soundstage....etc. 

 

Is there a word for that ^?

 


Edited by chicolom - 1/24/12 at 5:49pm
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post #6 of 6
1/24/12 at 5:49pm
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Thanks, I've already read that though and the definition makes it sound the same as "positioning" - which is why I asked if they were the same or different terms in my first post.

 

So what would be the correct term for what I'm trying to describe in my first post??


Not quite, imaging/positioning is just about the position, what you described sounded a little different. Oh well I suppose if it truly has two meanings which I wasn't familiar of then you might be correct with one of the meanings. But I've personally never read about any1 using it other in terms of positioning.

 

Should be easier to understand terms used IMO which is more describing such as simply "accurate" if it truly sounds like the real thing, positioning instead of imaging etc.


Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 1/24/12 at 5:53pm
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