Term used to describe the quality of a sound field put out by an audio system giving a subjective measure as to how well a system can recreate depth, width and height from the recording. A system with good imaging is able to recreate the acoustic feel of a space, its ambience, with a high degree of clarity. A poorly imaging system, by contrast, does a poor job of recreating the sonic environment where the original event was recorded. maging is dependent on all aspects of an audio system from the speakers (the most important part with the greatest over all impact) to the source device. Proper imaging can bring the listener into the environment and make him feel like he is there. Excellent imaging accurately places sounds in a three-dimensional sound field allowing listeners to pick out individual instruments, voices, etc. and their location in the space through sound only.