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Which speaker is the master of IMAGING ????

My jaw has only dropped with one system. I was at the Home Entertainment Show in NYC last summer when I was floored. It was the Legend Audio 'The Legend' speakers powered by Legend Audio Nirvana 100 watt Tubed Monoblocks.

OH MY GOD! Till this day, I get chills just thinking about the experience. It was like there was an entire stage filled with people and instruments right in front of me. The best part was when I took my eyes off of this stage to look at the speakers,,,,,,,,,,,,YOU WOULD SWEAR THAT THEY WEREN'T EVEN ON. I have heard other speakers that have exceptional qualities in other areas but I haven't imaging like that since that day.

Any other great imaging speakers out there?
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trelja
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While I really like the Legends, it's more for their tone than the soundstaging - not to take anything away from that.

Recently, Sufentanil and I auditioned a pair of Totem Arros that soundstaged like nobody's business. I was on the other side of the room(15 feet away), and basically behind them, and they were still imaging like a laser beam. I was floored, and I don't get floored so easy.
trelja
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Sean, I agree with you about Legend. I hope I didn't come off in any way as not being crazy about their speakers, as I do think they sound very good.

In my mind, the biggest crime on the flip side of what most of us complain about as far as the Stereophile Recommended Components List(grade inflation) is the Legend Starlet integrated amp.

As many around here know, I am not the biggest fan of the 6550 tube sound, but Legend really does something special with this amp. What gorgeous sound! I think it is probably the best 6550 sounding amplifier I might have ever heard.

Class C?!? If that amp is Class C then that whole list desparately needs to be rebalanced.
trelja
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I first have to say that for those who want to take this with a grain of salt, so be it - I'm a part of Fried Products...

However, luckily, before he died, Bud Fried gave me his longtime personal loudspeakers - C/4 satellites with O subwoofers, and they are without a doubt the best imaging speakers I have EVER been around. Of course, they are a one off pair, and all of the drivers were custom built to his own specification. And, the crossovers were tweaked and tweaked and tweaked until it sounded right to him.

I used to think it was the time alignment/minimum baffle of the truncated pyramids that are the C sats, but experience has proven to me that the REAL secret is the series crossover. A close friend and I talk a lot, and through experimentation the series crossover just provides such superior imaging that it's flat out uncanny. At one juncture, while I was listening, I jumped up because I heard the phone ringing several yards behind me - it was the music! And, my listening position is right up against the back wall. Talk about one of those jaw dropping moments - I was flat out dumbfounded!
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