How important is it for you to attain a holographic image?

Just a couple thoughts on the holographic image discussion.  No doubt that the better the holographic image, the more likely that the home listening experience will improve. 

A few things I've noticed from attending live events are that when you sit front row center, you easily perceive width but depth and height seem to be somewhat compressed..in other words, if the singer is 20' in front of the drummer, you don't sense 20' of depth.  And if the drummer is on a 5 foot elevated platform, you probably don't sense the whole five feet.

Therefore, I want my system to produce width at least 3 feet beyond the speakers, realistic height (4-6'), some depth and a strong center image when appropriate.  My system is 2.1..with towers running full range and a 15" sealed sub coming in below 45hz....turn off the sub and the whole hologram colapses inward substantially.

And as mentioned in a prior thread...if the tone, texture and dynamics aren't right, the hologram won't carry the day!!

I don't think that there is any question that most of us have some kind of physical limitations as to where we can place loudspeakers within our chosen room.  Given that starting point, the challenge then becomes to find the combination of loudspeakers, electronics, wires, etc. that give us the hologram, tone, dynamics, etc. that really satisfy what we are looking for. 

With different experiences, different rooms and different ideas of what sound "right", there is probably not a one size fits all solution...but there might be a reasonable starting point...and least that is what this interesting thread is postulating...  https://www.avsforum.com/forum/89-speakers/3038828-how-choose-loudspeaker-what-science-shows.html

One final thought...I've pretty much had good sounding systems my whole life...my kids grew up with them.  My older son plays acoustic, electric and bass guitar and even when I've offered to give him systems, he declines.  Why, he tells me that he has never heard home audio that remotely conveys the sound that he hears...produces...strives for as a musician....so he'd rather just play through his equipment as it is much more satsifying than listening to a recording.

@falconquest 

we are looking forward to your initial thoughts and then hopefully a review of the Spatials when they arrive.