Our 1977 La Scala's are the ONLY piece of our system that has not changed over the past year. I must have listened to thirty or more speakers during that period. Some might be more capable, but every one that I've heard masks something on the recording that the Klipsch simply let through. And I don't want the music to be massaged, made more palatable, or more pleasant. Paired with a SET amp, I just have yet to find a speaker with more immediacy to it. Still looking and listening...