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.
