I’ve been lucky enough to get to listen to quite a few different speakers and brands lately at a couple of local hi-fi shops, and I have a question for all of the audiophiles in this subreddit. What speaker has the best soundstage that you have ever heard?
My vote is for the 1984 Acoustat 2+2 full-range electrostatic system; it stood just under 8-feet in height, and ran four stacked electrostatic panels per enclosure, just double the size of the model 1+1, which was also no slouch.
The soundstage - and the ability to isolate instruments was unmatched, with uniform output throughout the height and width of each screen. Naturally, they only worked well with stable, high-current amplifiers of reasonably high output; they were an astonishing audiophile bargain, but the savings were immediately lost in the need to spend for high quality amplification.