Which speaker is the master of IMAGING ????

The Hill Plasmatronic - I've been around this business for 25 years & seen most of them. The Hill is not around anymore, except used. It uses a plasma gas chamber, modulated by the audio signal as the radiating source - almost zero moving mass - driven by its own tube amp. The staging and focalization is without peer. Musicality is like triodes extended into speakers. It's meant to be used with a subwoofer, but coned units, except for Shahinians, are just not fast enough. Any Dayton Wrights still around - their perfect. But what to get for the crossover - only two choices - the older Shahinian and Audio Research units. They are the only units to have the transparency adequate to the Hill's.

Dayton Wright's revisited. Hey Rasdc.I am currently restoring a pair of xg-8's. Perfect???? nothing is perfect but the Wright's were miles ahead of anything in their day. Unfortunately at that time,very few amplifiers were capable of driving them so few of us ever "really" got to hear them set up properly.

The best I've heard are also the ones I now own and have reviewed right here on A'gon: Intuitive Design Summit PSL 624 loudspeakers. (PSL = Pitcher Sound Labs). Astonishing imaging, in a wonderful way, and that's with a behemoth "entertainment" center positioned right between the two speakers. It's as if the entertainment center didn't even exist. They have it all, and in spades: Height, Width, Depth, AND a wiiiiiiide sweet spot. Phenomenal off axis dispersion with no discernible loss in precision of the imaging. I'm awestruck, but as you can see, not dumbstruck. :)))

Sooner or later, people will start to figure out how great these are, assuming they get a chance to listen to them.

Nope, I don't sell them. It's just wonderful to finally be satisfied with my speakers, and not have had to mortgage the house (again) to get to that point.

Acapella Violins - the only speakers I've heard where I believed I could touch the musicians. That said, the guy had also spent a fortune on some very special (possibly weird) room treatments - lumps of ebony on bird perchs - we did mess with them, and they did make a difference!

Just my 2p :0)

Unity audio. They have been gone for some time now but I'm told they're coming back as the owner is through with his government work and will get back to making great speakers again. I had the pleasure of listening to an entry level pair driven by LA Audio tube amps, at Acoustic Image, and was floored by what I heard. Exceptional imaging; 3-D pinpoint images of muscians spread out across the room in front of me with deep layering. I swear I could have gotten up and walked around the musicians. The song was Shirley Horn's 'Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' ' and to this day, I've never heard a soundstage recreated in that manner. I'm still kicking myself in the butt for not geting those speakers as I would never have parted with them.