Please Read and express your feelings and opinions....

Civility is overrated, but some of the bad advice given out in these forums costs folks some long green, IMHO.

...no mine really does suck.....

Another perspective. I attend a fair amount of live, acoustic, concerts and IMHO none of them have the soundstage that many audio systems have.

The whole imaging and soundstaging thing is a parlor trick inside a parlor trick that was perpetrated by The Absolute Sound. All it has helped to do is to take the focus off of correct tonal balance and put it on, IMHO, what is, at best, an artifact of the recording process.

Unfortunately, I’m in the Bose and Muscrat Love half. No hope for me....

And the other half of you deserve to prattle on with ad hominem arguments on audio forums.  

And the third half of you should be banished to listening to Bose systems.

The final half of you should be forced to memorize the words to the America penned tune “Muscrat Love” (though the Captain and Tenille did it better).

You must be in the third half.

No, if you can do that then you’re in the fourth half....or fifth maybe.

Kosst_ feel free to consider my perspective anything that you care to, however I use mini monitors that image quite well. I just fail to hear that type of imaging in the concert hall. And, of course, my hearing could certainly be suspect.

I will say that, years ago, when I used Altec 19s, JBL Apollos and Klipsch Cornwalls that presentational aspect of the sound had greater veracity to the concert hall, however the diversions from tonal correctness were a bit hard to live with.

I think that we pick the distortions that we can live with in the end. So in my case it’s not a result of owning speakers that don’t image well, but simply a preference for what I believe is a closer representation of concert hall sound.

I would ask do you hear this kind of imaging in the concert hall? If you don’t then it is fair to say that is an artifact of the recording/reproduction process, though, to some, a pleasant one.

And I think that it is an intentional misreading of my post to say that I suggest that good soundstage and tonal accuracy are, in some way, mutually exclusive. What I said was the Absolute Sound took the emphasis off of tonal correctness when began to focus, almost solely, on aspects of soundstaging. But you knew that’s what I said.

Kosst_, thank you. Yes, we probably listen for different things, and that’s great. There is enough gear out there to please everyone’s preferences. I’m glad that you have found a rig that suits you.