Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc??

No rack between speakers.
No TV in room.

This is the most important starting base to getting good imaging, left/right, up/ down, back/forward and outside the speakers.

Cheers George

I think it would be difficult to know how your systems is staging without extremely intimate knowledge of the recording. Significant details are needed to know if you are getting an accurate representation. I suppose if you have heard good staging then it exists and if you havent it doesnt.

Amen.

IMO, most HiFi haven't a clue as to what constitutes an accurate presentation. Lord knows that most shops are incapable of an accurate presentation.

As far as rack and TV, if they are covered and treated to be non-resonant, they do not seem to present much of a problem. IMO, the mains must be forward of the screen and rack

ieales.
IMO, most HiFi haven’t a clue as to what constitutes an accurate presentation. Lord knows that most shops are incapable of an accurate presentation.

>>>I heard a system a few days ago that puts everything else to shame. If you could hear what I heard with my ears. Great soundstage has almost nothing to do with brand names. Everything is relative. - A. Einstein

"I think it would be difficult to know how your system is staging without extremely intimate knowledge of the recording." READ the second post in this thread. The tests listed remove all variables, associated with the source(ie: microphone techniques, venues, etc) and provide references, which obviate the need for listener familiarity with the recording.   Again: all that’s only for those interested in finding out, if their systems(and/or ears/brains) are up to the task, given a recording that contains the info.