[Robert Peirce]

There is imaging and there is imaging. I relate what I want to hear to
what I actually do hear at a live performance.

From a reasonable distance, I can't exactly pick out that the bass is
here and the drums are there. They sort of merge together. I think it
is a function of the "included angle" of the performers from my
listening position. It is one thing if you are on stage, maybe in the
middle of the group. It is another thing if you are 50 or 100 feet back
in the hall.

I am trying to preserve the illusion of being back in the hall and I get
that from my Apogee Divas. The fact that the apparent image doesn't
shift much when I move about the room is a good thing. If I'm 100' from
the stage and I move a few seats one way or the other I am not going to
notice much difference and I am still going to have an image of the
group in pretty much the same place.

I am trying to translate that from a fairly large listening space, about
400 sq. ft., into something much smaller, about 140 sq. ft. I recognize
that small monitors can give me pin-point imaging from the sweet spot,
but that illusion is being much closer to the stage, perhaps on the
stage. I am after the back in the hall illusion and I need something
different for that. I just don't know what it is.