Listening to my Model T passives, I'm totally impressed with the imaging, let me tell you about it.
In my 25'x 11'x 8' room I have the speakers placed along the long wall approx. 10' apart. I have them reflecting off the back wall about 2' to the left & right of my seating position.
The direct sound, sounds like it's coming off the front wall in an 10'x 8' soundstage. This is just a phantom image but it sounds like a full powered speaker. The speakers are merely the boundary of this soundstage in which the sound is not localized.
Very impressive imaging, of course YMMV depending on the room.
Mag
Hi Mag
Thank you for this post because it points out one of the main benefits of the Bryston speakers - and that is what we call the 'Family of Curves'.
Which is - the frequency response is even all around the speaker - we do hundreds of measurements in the anechoic chamber both - vertically and horizontally - and make them as flat as possible in every direction. This is sometimes referred too as the SOUND POWER and that is really what you hear when you place a speaker in a room.
The walls and ceiling and floor are all contributing to this 'sound power' and if all those reflections are similar in tonal balance to the on-axis response of the speaker you end up with this huge soundstage where the room disappears!!!
james