Most agreed upon best speaker?

Lrsky, your comments about soundstaging have so offended me I would like to meet you half-way between our two residences for a fistfight.

Ok, seriously, I think this is an issue with multi-way front horns and I think it's a coherence issue.

(Single-driver) back horns don't have this issue - in fact, they usually soundstage very well indeed.

Good one Paul

Lrsky, the field-coil powered Classic Audio Loudspeakers will do the same imaging and detail as the Sound Labs, without horn artifact. The speaker is 98 db and goes from 20Hz to 35KHz. If you search this website look for comments on the speaker from either the RMAF 2008 or T.H.E. Show 2009.

One thing to keep in mind is that most horns will not sound right with transistors- that in fact is where the 'horn sound' myth comes from. For more information see
http://www.atma-sphere.com/papers/paradigm_paper2.html

Field-coils are the dynamic speaker equivalent of the powered Electrostatic Field in an ESL. In essence this gives the driver the same speed that an ESL can exhibit, and for the same reason: the motive field does not sag when the amplifier powers the diaphragm to move.

Rats! We were about to have a real old fashioned fist fight on our hands.

Not me, I am too old and have a bad back. I could bite I suppose, but then I don't know where Paul has been!