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Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander?

Listened to B&W's 6 series and much prefered the 686 and 685 to the more expensive floorstanders. I'm a junkie for clear and coherent vocals and the floorstanders seemed to muddy the sound.
Listened to Dynaudio Focus 110s and loved them. Compared them to the Contour 5.4s and I loved the top end of them even more than the Focus' but was again bothered by what I want to call an incoherence... lack of focus... integration... with the low end.

Owned Totem Arros and Dreamcatcher monitors with Dreamcatcher sub and prefered the dreamcatcher monitors over the Arros and without the sub, too.

Am I just a bookshelf guy? Was it my choice of floorstanders? Setup? Anyone have better words to describe what I'm trying to say? I certainly love the low end and dynamic grunt of the big ones but not at such expense.
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Since the last 8 posts here have been Bobby and 9rw and are OT, I'll start a new thread for you guys, see:

Another Merlin Thread

Then we can return this one to "regular programming" for the OP.

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Marty: Thanks a lot, but I think Bobby's last post covers everything. By the way, do you still own a pair of Merlin speakers? If so, what do you use with them? Thanks for sharing.
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So it appears as though Marty no longer owns a pair of Merlin speakers. I wonder why that is.
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Of course. My mistake. It's been so many posts ago that I had forgotten that the VSMs are one of his many pairs of speakers. I'm surprised he hasn't had to replace that horrible ARC LS25.
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