Listen to Ramstl. Also, not all recordings have out of phase signal information, so those will not image beyond the width of the speakers (this is not even considering the height and depth planes; instrument image sizes/prespectives, etc.). A good test CD is called for here. Listen to correlated and uncorrelated pink noise, and voice tracks in and out of phase. My two favorites are the Sheffield A2TB "My Disc", and also the XLO/RR CD..........................The point of good imaging, is to have the entire listening room disappear, so that you are transported to the recording venue. If that venue was not "continuous" to begin with, you cannot expect "realism" thru your system, that didn't actually get recorded in the first place. To assume otherwise is folly, but that doesn't stop lots of people from assuming it anyway.................They also love OH SOOO much, to assume that room acoustic treatment isn't necessary, as long as they can hear some form of phantom center image. That is utter foolishness also. Anybody can listen in an untreated room, but please do not deceive yourself into thinking you are "really hearing something good", because you aren't...........I heard the top of the line Spendors at a dealer's house, in a huge room treated only with plants(his "reference"). He was big on deceiving himself, like so many are....the slap echo was about like that of an airport terminal, or a raquetball court. The silly things people do, and with so much money to boot! It's a travesty!!!
Widening my soundstage
I can't seem to get my Spendor S-100s to soundstage any wider than the speakers themselves. They're off all walls. Been toed in, toed out, placed on axis, moved, tilted, turned, twisted... Powered by Jolida int. tube amp. Arcam CD. Cardis interconnects. Speaker cables = weakest link = heavy gauge Monster cable copper. Could that be it? Suggested repacements????