Trust your own ears is what I always tell people, you system should please yourself, not others.
If you have a chance to hear a super high resolution system consisting of diamond/ribbon/Be tweeters at length, even better if you can live with them for months, and go back to hear an older silk dome, you will know what I am talking about.
I am super sensitivie to brightness/harshness of any kind, I sold my Wilson WP 5.1 after owning them a month for that exact reason. I still like Esotar based speakers because they are very easy to listen to, but when compared to newer and better tweeters Esotar is showing its age. Sorry, technology in mechanical, electrical, and psychoacoustic engineering have advanced very far in the past 20 years. I have to admit diamond tweeter is very seductive, as much as I used to hate B&W (sold 802N in no time too), the new B&W diamond are very capable speakers as well as other diamond speakers like Tidal, Avalon, and Marten Design.
An older design that masks out micro dynamic and details though pleasant to listen to can't be called world class when compared to the current SOTA. Not saying GH is garbage, it's far from it, but GM simply does more in recreating music and that's a fact.
If you have a chance to hear a super high resolution system consisting of diamond/ribbon/Be tweeters at length, even better if you can live with them for months, and go back to hear an older silk dome, you will know what I am talking about.
I am super sensitivie to brightness/harshness of any kind, I sold my Wilson WP 5.1 after owning them a month for that exact reason. I still like Esotar based speakers because they are very easy to listen to, but when compared to newer and better tweeters Esotar is showing its age. Sorry, technology in mechanical, electrical, and psychoacoustic engineering have advanced very far in the past 20 years. I have to admit diamond tweeter is very seductive, as much as I used to hate B&W (sold 802N in no time too), the new B&W diamond are very capable speakers as well as other diamond speakers like Tidal, Avalon, and Marten Design.
An older design that masks out micro dynamic and details though pleasant to listen to can't be called world class when compared to the current SOTA. Not saying GH is garbage, it's far from it, but GM simply does more in recreating music and that's a fact.