Arranged in space

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PSB Imagine T3 Floorstanding Speakers


One of the things I’m after in audio is what I call “image lock.”

I’ve always found a direct correlation between a system’s ability to sound real, and its high performance on any music not recorded to sound real.

So besides basking in a stereo image when the music is recorded for stereo, speakers that have good image lock tend to also show up big for pop, jazz, R&B, etc.

Image lock isn’t just about the high end and tweeter dispersion. As the late, great Arnie Nudell thought, and many others beside him, a speaker’s ability to reproduce mid bass correctly was a major determiner of its sense of realism.



He also believed in excellent high frequency dispersion and rear-firing tweeters, but his focus on the mid bass — and specifically his use of one driver ( for that sole purpose — reinforced for me the importance of it in the scheme of things.

When I’m recording, I think about things like that. If I’m opposed to using EQ, which I often am, I make sure I’ve got good definition in the region, which extends from kick drum at ~100Hz to the deep part of a chesty male vocal, around 350Hz.

I can handle a bright speaker if the mid bass is right, and the same goes with headphones. And we come across a bit of both in our work here at TMR, curating, testing and cleaning some of the world’s best audio gear.

The good ones really stick out to me and the other testers, because we love music and are opinionated and care about sound — and most of us are actually musicians as well.

Apologies for taking so long to get to the point, but let me do so now. These PSB Imagine T3 speakers are really incredible.

I’ve set up hundreds of speakers over the years, and one of the first things I’m thinking about with these is how stinking’ easy it was to set up just about as perfect an “image lock” soundstage as I’ve ever heard.

Plenty of high dollar speaker systems have their strengths, but what I’m hearing from these is a perfect absence of flaws, and a vivid, believable soundstage that is so locked in it’s hard to “Imagine” before you hear it.

If the intended listing price I see is real, these are going to be one of the best values in our entire lineup.

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