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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 of...