2 way, which are the best designs?

Kenjit, if you think MM 27 are harsh, i wonder if you've heard the latest gen 2 and not gen 1?

The barefoots are not designed for pleasing sound. They are designed to sound bad. Thats what the studio engineers want and thats what studio monitors deliver. 

Kenjit, studio mid-field monitors at this level sounds incredibly good if they are mated with a fine source. That's what we want. We don't listen to crappy Motley Cru recordings on them. For that we have Gamut speakers.

Kenjit, the later version have several voicing settings, mine have two. Flat and Nice. According to Thomas there’s about 0.5db difference. Actually, i tried now and perhaps i like the "Nice" better when using Nuprime Evo dac. With my Wadia 381 flat were very good.
Oh, i guess you hate top of the line Focal speakers?
A Swedish custom loudspeaker builder measured a few Focal speakers and they were not linear.

Oh, i guess you hate top of the line Focal speakers?

i heard the diablo. Are they top line? It wasnt very good. Just like most high end speakers ive heard. Not surprising since theyre not custom tuned to your ears are they? 0.5db is a joke

rird, I run a simple sytem with Sonos Connect toslink to Martin Logan Unison (for ARC) toslink to Anti-mode 2.0 (for digital eq.) toslink to REM ADI-2 dac and finally xlr to Quested V3110/ATC 150 ASL. The RME will soon replace the Anti-mode for eq. A Trinnov would replace the whole package Unison/Anti-mode/RME.

You probably had me to find a PMC IB2S or SE soon :-)

Maybe something offering a quite different soundstage would interest you, like a MBL or other omni directional speaker.