Paradigm persona vs. Monitor audio Platinum

I like crisp, airy(extended) treble and so I naturally gravitate towards metal domes. I used to love AMT tweeters, but I guess that was compared to softdomes many years ago. AMTs now sound a little dark although still more acceptable to me than soft domes. It’s mainly preference and system matching I think. I haven’t heard the monitors but did hear the Legacy Aeris and next down the line. I think Paradigms are great, but require system matching. My big complaint with Personas and Magicos is the lack of grills. Come on manufacturers, at least give the us the option of putting them on to protect them!

Having said that, I’m not a fan of ESS DACs. They sound too lean to me, and if compensated for, sound too plumy and fat or soft in the bass. Currently using BelCanto DAC 3.5mk2 and pretty happy, but I would dearly love to have the Bricasti that has all DAC options in one unit: r2r, DS, and one bit DSD.
 I also wish everyone could agree to disagree and not attack each other in forums, makes for a worse experience.

Well you should give a listen to the wyred for sound 10th anniversary dac, I think it will change your mind you really have to know how to design the analog side to make everything sound really good. Even the reviewer at 10 audio said it was one of the most analog sounding decks he's heard. They've really done a phenomenal job designing this dac. It is very spacious very natural-sounding. It's not just a chip that makes it sound good it's everything else designed around it properly.

Also the reviewer at 10 audio had a few other dacs they're including a bricasti and he said the wyred4sound was still better.

Actually, this is all kind of embarrasing....

I have no idea about the tweeters. But I heard one of the persona's at the last RMAF.  And I heard an extremely good sounding speaker even under show condition's.