Searching for the most "accurate" speaker (below 15K)

Interesting that Dave hears more detail from the Persona than the ATC. The ATC is commonly used for mixing, where that’s of paramount importance. For my taste, ATC is probably more detailed than I prefer for home hifi use, since half my record collection is mediocre sounding, but that’s a different kettle o fish, altogether. The Persona certainly sounds like it would be worth an audition.

Cswood, believe it or not the Polk LSim 707 is a nice sounding speaker it is not exceptional but does a lot of things well for the money. We got a pair in trade and I was actually suprised how musical they are.

Martykl, the Beryilium drivers just have a clarity that brings in little details like breaths, and cimbals, and macro details that are just masked in most other speakers. 

The best drivers we ever heard are the Diamond drivers from Acution which have  a smoothness with detail that is excpetional the next best drivers are the Persona drivers, which create this immense soundstage with detail that is just remarkable, these speakers do require careful matching of ancellories of they can be a bit too forrward for some tastes.

ATC are very smooth if they are sounding bright than it is something in your system possibly cables, source, or your electronics. 

We show the ATC SCM 11, and the SCM 19 we have also had a pair of the 40s which sound like a bigger version of the 40 and in all of our setups the sound is great. 

We show them on Naim alot and the match is fantastic,  with Wireworld Silver Eclipse speaker cables which has both great detail and has great bass heft, we have compared these cables to both AQ and Nordost cables and the Wireworld's were far better at the same price. 

Dave owner 
Audio Doctor NJ

surprised no one has mentioned the Sanders 10e speaker system. To my ears its probably the most neutral/ accurate speaker YMMV.

Good choice, rsf507. I've mentioned the Sanders ESLs in other threads, and love them myself. I heard them at the S. CA show a couple of years ago, and thought they provided the best sound at the show.

Comments regarding Electrostats- audio doctor Way out of Touch .
I own conventional Loudspeakers as well as New Martin Logan powered 
 24 bit DSP and room correction And powered subwoofer dual  units.  The purity of the stat panel  and speed of 
Attack is  second to none. Conventional drivers mass is much heavier ,,thst bring said no drivers are perfect for everyyhing.
And there us no compression what so ever.especially If kept under 100 db output 
Which I always do. This is hearing damage over 90db. If you don't own them ,or spent a lot of time in a properly setup room then your statement is not worth much.your opinion is just that .they are in the Class-A rating in TAS magazine so they must be doing something right . I have heard many  top speakers sound not to good  especially at shows.as far as Dealer comments, Dealer have No business giving opinions on gotims for they have A bias agenda to begin with.