Which speaker is the master of IMAGING ????

kpaudio: Dunlavy was an engineer first and then a music lover. The amount of detail that he put into his research and designs demonstrates this. As such, his products strived to be the best that he could deliver on a technical basis while trying to "sound good" too. I don't doubt that many professional sound people and engineers would consider these to be their reference speakers. As a side note, i have to agree with your comments about sealed designs. My guess is that you have a pretty good set of ears attached to the sides of yer head : ) Sean
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Speaking of Totem Accoustics has anyone heard the Shaman or Wind models? I've read two good reviews on the Shaman in spite of their 5 speaker 3-way 2nd order cross over design. The "Wind" model is very interesting looking, but once again I'm very skeptical of the 2nd order cross over design.

The best imaging I've heard so far was on a pair of Verity Audio Parsifal Encores and the Fidelios. The width, depth and layering of the soundstage could be absolutely amazing with these speakers. Don't know the secret, perhaps it's the use of very expensive Skaaning drivers and matching them very closely. Whatever they do, it does the trick and sounds spooky real!

Revel Salon's or Studio's hands down, Dunlavy SCV's arent too shabby either. Nothing can compete with a speaker with high quality drivers which operate in a wide dispersion pattern from narrowband configuration of steep crossover points. Just picked up a pair of ML Prodigy's for our other room. They are great too, but a different kind of sound altogether, more relaxed sounding, kind of like background music or elevator music, thats probably the best way to describe them. Dipoles/omnipolar/electrostatics by nature dont image as well as a dynamic front firing driver array speakers. They give off the impression that they do, but with less detailed images from rear firing reflections and many times with smearing even the best of them. Ive always found that electrostatics sound best with the rear wave absorbed as much as possible.

The Acoustat X with direct drive power amps. It sounds like the harpisichord is in the room.