Cables costs almost nothing, if you compare them with the ones inside the genelecs. Also, the cheapest genelec coaxial is 8331
imaging : the positioning of the sound object in the virtual soundstage. Vague means it’s like a large are from an object is coming. For example a drum is there somewhere in the left. Precise : it’s exactly left to the piano, but it does not bleed into the area of piano and so on. That’s what the general idea of imaging. From your definition you are mixing soundstage with imaging.
Howdy, no I don't think I am.
I said nothing about 'vague'.
I don't find pinpoint imaging as realistic.
I find a larger image a bit more convincing. There is nothing vague about it if done right. The positions are convincing and clear. Though of course some speakers and setups are very diffuse sounding and do have vague spacial qualities.
Yes - in reality, soundstage, scale, imaging are all going to bleed into each other. They are aspects of the exactly the same thing - us as listeners translating the sound into an image & experiencing spacial quality.
It is really impossible to talk about imaging without also talking about the soundstage as they co-create each other.
In real life to me a guitar doesn't come from a smaller more pinpoint area. A guitar is quite large and a piano even larger. If possible I prefer that 'image', the image of a more lifesized instrument vs a smaller but more 'pinpount' image.
With vocals sometimes very exacting imaging makes voices seem just bit disembodied to me vs other types where I can picture the person or the singer sitting right in from of me.
For me 'imaging' is woven into the whole experience of the picture that the speaker transduces.
So, I what was trying to point out that when talking about good imaging there are different types than can be considered good and pinpoint, exacting imaging is not always the prefered version.
I mean that is why we have the term 'pinpoint imaging' as it is needed to describe that type of imaging.
In terms of accuracy to the source I have no idea what imaging quality is more accurate more often. Certainly with each album/track it will be dependent on the speakers the recording and mastering engineers used.
Another reason folks to try at least a few speakers if at all possible when making a purchase - especially if the plan involves any long term purchase.
