Kex.

Interestingly and you may know the answer to this with regards to imaging but when the AN's are positioned as designed in the corners the soundstaging and imaging are far superior then they are when left freestanding -- though with the K in my room when in the corners about 13 feet apart the speaker were much better with the soundstaging when freestanding -- the K is smaller speaker and a sealed cabinet. In the corners they had trouble -- too far apart -- slightly too big a room maybe.

Peter has problems with what he perceives to be a stamped on sound with many speakers imaging in that it is unnatural with most modern recordings and he likes to take out older 60's stuff to point out that his speakers have no problem with creating Soundstage and imaging when it is REALLY there. But that was a whole other thread. In my room now I don;t feel there is any problem with localizing any instrument on a stage that is at least as big as the front wall. And his speakers usually get strong reviews for both imaging and soundstaging.

And the interesting thing is that AN tends to have an incredibly open and big sound creating a vast presentation in space. I have heard many speakers in the press that are called great imagers that sound small and don't get out of their boxes. If you can;t even get one instrument to sound like an instrument then I wonder how one can think they image well.



Geofcin -- the particular speaker was one that would generate too much argument -- and I don;t want to pick on it because much of its direct competition doesn;t fair a whole lot better if even as good. Though I will say it was not a Totem and this company advertises a lot and adds numbers to their speaker every 3-5years.