Hysteve, I have not digested all of the posts that came after my original one, wherein I asked whether you have ever been able to experience what you feel is "excellent" sound staging with the Volti spkrs. My unspoken point was that a friend of mine owns a pair, and in his house, in his smallish room, I always felt that the music appeared to emanate from an unnaturally flattened source, like all the musicians were down on the floor with their instruments. I also felt I could hear the treble as separated from the bass and mids. The owner of that system eventually raised his spkrs up on stands by about 6 inches or a foot. As I recall, this was even recommended by Volti. That helped a lot to achieve a more realistic "concert hall" or jazz club experience, where usually the musicians are either raised above the audience or on the same level as the audience. I cannot recall whether that maneuver also ameliorated the sense that bass/mids and treble were separated from one another. But he was a lot happier. He was using very high end components, a Dohmann Helix TT, Durand Telos tonearm, TOTL Lyra cartridge, driving a Ypsilon phono stage via either a Ypsilon or EMIA SUT, into an EMIA amplifier. Also, bear in mind that I use very tall planar full range spkrs at home, so I may be hypersensitive to multi-driver arrays.
I see above that Volti make more than one spkr. These were their top of the line models, costing more than $20,000, I think.