The magic of perfect driver integration unclogs the midbass and midrange, achieving performance that is scintillating in the natural feel it has. The Signatures make this recording sound much more sophisticated that I thought it was after I listened to it for many months on 3As and other speakers. Nordost SPM Reference. The 3As can throw a large and convincing soundstage. But when you hear the 3A Signature in the same room knock knock knockin' on heaven's door , you get the sense that the sound is less contained, less constrained, less a reproduction and easier to accept as the real thing.
Sounds wrap around and appear even forward of the speakers.
When the 3A does this, louder sounds come forward a bit, even if they weren't supposed to. The ability of the Signatures to wrap around the room to your left and right sides and throw an even deeper image than the 3As brings spatial performance in my listening room to new, uh, heights. No, you don't get vertical layering like you get horizontal spread or depth. The height thing is more subtle, but it is still vital to reproducing images of realistic proportion. The tone of the sax is so right it's spooky, and sax is one of the hardest instruments to record realistically due to sound from the reed, body and horn all having different characters and blending based on where the microphone is located.