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Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space

I am looking for comments on what speakers you have heard that provide a lot of depth, but with the depth, also layering and separation in the depth or soundfield.

Width and openess is one thing, but depth with layering and space from front to back is much rarer.

One speaker that recently impressed me was the PSB Synchrony One with Mcintosh amp and front end.

I've demoed a lot of equipment but don't hear this aspect that often.

Any comments or experiences to share?
mr_bill

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johnsonwu
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Purely personal opinion and may be controversial:

Depth and layering means you need coherence.
Full range speakers with no crossovers will give you that.
They wont play loud, no deep bass, no top end, but they convey space.

Other than that you'd be looking at speakers from YG acoustics, Avalon, or to a certain extent Wilson.

JM Lab Utopia Be's will do it too, but crossover mods necessary.
johnsonwu
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Kevin Hayes is the owner-designer of VAC amps.
I have owned a pair of Phi70 monos since 2005.
Not the most musical amp I have had to date (strange for a 300B) but it does have lots of air and does the space and depth thing right.

In addition to "midrange really uncolored, neutral" you also need to consider "sound-floor". Lookup Arthur Salvatore and read his rantings about this.
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