What is Imaging?

When you can pick out/imaagine in space where each sound is apparently coming from. Say a massed choir.. You can hear each voice occupying a separate position in the space between/around/squeezed, wider, narrower, all mushed to Hell... etc. Vaguely from somewhere between the speakers.. maybe?
That is imaging. Good or bad.

According to this audio glossary:

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

Tricks, illusion and deception. Convincing and convenient perception.

Go to your local Magnepan dealer. Have them set up a pair of 1.7s or 3.7s and position them for ideal setup. Sit in the sweet spot and have them play your favorite music. Listen and observe. It should become very obvious what imaging is, as you will hear a sonic hologram of the performance--where every voice and instrument is positioned in space, and the interrelations among them all.

Sorry, I'm a new convert. Just brought a pair of Magneplanar 1.7s home Saturday and it quickly became my aural virtual reality machine. I sit in the sweet spot and an transported to the performance. You don't so much listen to Maggies as hear *through* them.

I like the word soundscape, but the others aside from the Magneplanar enthusiast have explained it very well and are miraculously in agreement.