Which speaker is the master of IMAGING ????

Magico, by far.

I guess this jaw dropping thing is contagious. I saw an ad
posted on Audiogon for Audio Sound Labs Episode 5 Full-Range Planar Loudspeaker System. After doing some research, I found the company located in Montclair California, and they were able set up a demo. The system set up included Mark Levinson Mono Amps & Levinson Preamp with Sony's Top SA-CD1 Super Audio CD Player. I've never heard anything like it! When the music began, the physical aspect of the speakers suddenly seemed to vanish, it was as though, an area widened in front of you right before your eyes and ears, it was astonishing and incredible. The speakers are a work of art with an amazing sound to match.

Just had my new NEAR M50's arrive 2 weeks ago and they are outstanding in the imaging department. They are modified with the new drivers and I had them made with Cryo'd OTA.

Am reworking the XO's so it should even further enhance imaging and soundstaging.

I use to think that Magnepans were the elite until I found the NEARs and did A\B testing. The NEARs are more revealing also.

Wish Bill Kietyka would start producing commercially again as these babies will have a permanent place in my system till the time I go to the great gig in the sky!

Happy ;istening and I hope you find what I have in the future!

The Von Schweikert VR 4 HSE III, which is the latest incarnation, is a good immaging speaker. It imparts a feeling of width and depth, with space around the sounds it creates. This allows for an almost holographic representation,(I know that mixing video and audio are patently unfair), but given the subject matter, why not?
The tweeter (a fair resempblance to Ashley Judd's nipple) is responsible for some unusual happenings here.
The tweet operates from 500hz to over 40K. That implies that it offers a variation on a theme of the quad electrostatic, with its higher frequencies coming from the middle, and lower moving away. A concentric presentation . This can be a very pleasant experience. What really makes the case is the way the speakers are almost a second thought during some of the music. They become invisible to the ear. Anyone who has experienced this can chime in and agree, becaue it is one of those unique moments we all experience from time to time in audio.Another candidate, with very different technology, is the Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams. I esperienced several configurations of this product, and decided that the constant, the most striking benefit, the place where it actually destroys the competition, is in micro and macro dynamics. Soundstage is larger than life somewhat, but no more out of ideal than the real experience in one room, of live music compared to another. The speakers are killer. They deserve more marketing attention from the professional level than they are currently getting.
Best Regards, and good luck.
Larry R. Staples

If you "really" know what imaging is. The best at it is the VMPS RM40.