Stereo imaging accuracy

Listeners highlight the LS50 Meta’s superb imaging, with tightly focused, stable instruments and vocals that cast a hypnotic, center locked presentation and make the speakers disappear, organizing complex mixes into a precise, coherent soundstage that rivals the spatial precision of far costlier monitors.

Across impressions, the LS50 Wireless II earn strong praise for stereo imaging, with instruments and voices locked firmly in place and a stable centre image. Recent testing again finds the imaging precise and three-dimensional, crediting KEF's Music Integrity Engine for keeping placement sharp across a broad listening area.

Most reports characterize the SoundLink Max as providing modest stereo width for a single-box portable, giving some sense of left and right but limited separation compared with a true pair of speakers, though some music tests praise a surprisingly wide, airy soundstage for the size.

Multiple reviews agree that the Bounce’s stereo imaging is only modest: it offers some left right separation and keeps instruments distinct compared with mono speakers, but the overall soundstage remains fairly narrow and flattened versus the wider, more spacious presentation of top competitors.

Listeners find the Move 2's angled tweeters help widen the presentation, but true left-right stereo imaging is limited and only really apparent at a specific sweet spot, so it behaves more like a wide mono speaker in everyday use.

As a single mono unit the Charge 6 cannot deliver true stereo separation, so complex mixes and layered vocal harmonies sound flatter and less spacious unless you add a second speaker as a stereo pair.