I consider soundstage and imaging an important part in stereo's ability to pull me into the music. I started a thread on the ASR forum asking the experts if there were measurements for that and another thread inquiring about resolution. In my reality, what separates the $1000 pair from the $10,000 pair are 'stage, imaging and resolution and guess what? NOPE no such measurements, so these things don't exist Period.
Until they get off that pulpit i'll remain skeptical. Any decent pair of speakers should 'stage and image. read up a bit and learn about placement and have fun with it.