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Interesting points

but I would disagree with you about the comparison to mini monitors and larger three way ( or more ) speakers. It is possible for large speakers to generate quite an impressive soundstage and this includes standard, conventional dynamic driver designs. The key for the soundstaging you are seeking is the proper time and phase alignment. Not any speakers have adequate attention paid to those factors. Those which do, have quite an impressive soundstage, regardless of their driver configuration and size.

Two way systems have less issues simply because they have fewer drivers and fewer interactive effects. Even among those, however soundstage height can vary significantly.

I prefer a soundstage which vertically presents a singer at about normal standing height: five or 6 feet high. That seems to be most natural and pleasant to my tastes. Aligning the respective drivers in the system by time and phase has been an important part of achieving that goal. Time alignment can be done by making spacers or on a smaller speaker simply tilting a flat baffle slightly backwards to achieve the same vertical plane (with other caveats, of course).

I find the vast majority of speaker designs have noticeable timing issues which affect the soundstaging. When considering the ideal transducer is a point source, the typical layout has many compromises. You have to pick your poison, so to speak and work to eliminate those issues.

Stu

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