Mirage,Ohm,Vandy,Maggies:Spacious Sound/Bass


Looking to upgrade sound in a medium room....20 x 16....familiar with Vandies and Maggies...any comments on Mirage or OHm in regards to Soundstaging abilites...looking for a very wide dispersion characteritics and large sweetspot even if pinpoint imaging suffers....thanks...
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Extremely spacious/wide sweet spot designs include models from Shahinian, Duevel, Wolcott, Sound Lab, Beveridge, MBL, Mirage, Ohm, and probably a few others. (Disclaimer - I sell Sound Lab wide-pattern electrostats.) The Maggies do give a very spacious presentation, but the sweet spot isn't all that wide. The others I mentioned soundstage best up and down the centerline, but still give you a pretty decent soundstage along with uniform tonal balance from well off-center.

My personal priorities run along the same lines as yours - I'd rather have a rich, lush, spacious presentation than have pinpoint holographic imaging. The thing is, you can still get great depth of soundstage with a very wide-pattern loudspeaker. Such a speaker is more likely to generate a tonally correct reverberant field, which is an important contributor to natural timbre that few loudspeakers get right.