The best "imaging" speakers?

Ggavetti, my source was the same turntable for comparison.
However you are right about the pre & amp-they were superior to my dated 33/303 system. I've never done a comparison since then and I must say I got tremendous enjoyment from my Quad set-probably would still be enjoying it today if I had not made what I felt was an upgrade.
Room size is a very important issue as well. Today in a smaller room I would prefer a small/medium speaker with excellent dispersion to add life to the music. I felt the Quads were simply far too limited in the dispersion area.
Well made smaller 2 way speakers are normally good imagers as well.

02-04-09: Martykl
Minimonitors, whether alone (ProAc's Tablette is the best iamging mini I've heard)

02-04-09: Stereo
ProAc! Any model.

I picked up a pair of used Proac Tablette 50 Signatures not too long ago and have to concur with the above. The Proacs imaging is just superior to most speakers that I've owned and listened.

MBL 101Es. By far the most realistic soundstage and imaging speaker I've ever heard. Perhaps not so much "realistic" but "HYPER realistic". You are not only there, but you've shrunk a couple of sizes and everything is "lifelike", but also "GIANT"! It's real, but you feel like caterpillar in a forest when the "trees" are only blades of grass. Vocals come from a 30ft woman, you live in the sound hole of a plucked acoustic guitar. Quite possibly the most real and UNREAL speaker I've heard in my life.

Dylanhenry,

Have you ever heard OHm Walsh speakers?

I'm wondering how they compare to MBLs in regards to soundstage and imaging.

I own OHMs but have never heard MBLs.

Fullrange OHMs are a fraction of the cost of full range MBLs though.

Map,

I've heard every MBL (except for the new monster Extremes with the separate bass towers) on multiple ocassions and, as you know, I own Ohm 100s. The big MBLs definetly offer a more dramatic (Dylanhenry's term "hyperrealistic" is a good one) presentation than the Ohms, particularly at the crushing SPLs that MBL likes to use for demos. OTOH, my $1800 Ohms offer -IMHO- a much more neutral octave to octave balance than I've ever heard from the >$50,000 101s. But for this thread, imaging only, I'd still point to the MBLs.

Marty