Ralph Glasgal’s one of his smaller setup with MBL speakers. Note the narrow speaker angle. Crosstalk cancellation is not merely a technical trick. Its real purpose is to let the brain hear the interaural time differences (ITD) and interaural level differences (ILD) that were encoded in the recording, delivered as closely as possible to the way a natural, single-point sound source reaches us in real life. In nature a sound arrives from one location. Both ears receive a coheren