SH Spotlight Play the Kinks "Waterloo Sunset" in stereo, check and fix or improve your stereo playback with it!

Thanks, Steve - as if I needed an excuse to listen to "Waterloo Sunset" . Tried it on my downstairs system - perfect. On my upstairs system I had to move the speakers apart a touch.

 

Good reason to pull out my favorite Kinks record to listen to that sublime songs a few times. Thanks for the tip.

 

Yes, and what is it that creates that effect? Is that vocal harmony track on both channels and then they are thrown out of phase? If you switch to mono they seem to cancel each other out.
BTW A stereo mix of "Waterloo Sunset" appears on a UK Marble Arch LP titled "Stars of '68." (MALS 762) Seems to be a nearly identical mix except those background harmonies do not have that effect.

 

Always a pleasure to play the Kinks, what a fantastic tune. I will try this out.

 

There is at least one other phasing "problem" on the original mix of Something Else . On "Tin Soldier Man" the vocal almost disappears when summed to mono. (I said original as a couple of songs were remixed for a much later release).
Interesting about that Marble Arch stereo mix!

 

Can someone sketch a little diagram of proper speaker placement for this? I love immursion. Emmursion. Imurtion. I love to be surrounded by music like this.

I've got the track ready to play. Want to make sure this isn't the emperor's clothes. I want to make sure I'm getting it...

Jeff

 

PERFECT. Thanks. Any proper speaker placement that will cancel out the incessant noise of my wife telling me to lower it?

Jeff

 

On my stereo system, I've noticed this "surround sound" effect on a few other titles, too. I usually play the Jimi Hendrix track 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)' to check that my speakers are perfectly aligned. Another track is the single version of the Monkees track 'Listen To The Band'. There's a neat brief section towards the end when the sound seems to go from mono to a 360° surround sound but only if the speakers are perfect.

 

I assume the version one uses is not important? I have the 2-CD special edition from a few years back.

 

Sure! On stands, in the proper "triangle" formation, and at least two feet away from the side and back walls of the motel room you'll be living in after she throws you out.

 

I only have the song in mono

 

I'm in luck, I forgot I had the old Reprise CD still.

 

BIG thanks for clarifying Steve; that's were i was going too go when i saw the thread title [thanks as well too Capt Groovy for asking].
Know bout the "Golden Triangle" & the "Sweet Spot" (too the point of the "Head-in-a-Vice" situation that comes from electrostatics specifically & dipoles in general)

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General:
any one what too address "Toe-In"?

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Personal:
really believe having a video display between the spks is a GREAT hindrance it getting the sensation of 'depth' from a sound system.

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Real Personal:
just can't seem too get passed the flat screen which is a ft from the back wall & of course having a display 'flat' against the wall w/the sense of 'depth' from the display.

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If only all life's problems had such simple solutions--I'm on this tonight!

 

Don't worry, I think the mono mix is super!

 

I figured I had my speakers set up pretty good, and I wasn't wrong! Just put on the CD as I don't have a stereo copy of the track on vinyl - scared the **** out of me - in a good way of course, it was like someone just sang over my shoulder! Never noticed that before, thanks!