Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way?

The Cabasse Farella 401 speakers hit on all cylinders when paired with a quality SE or PP tube amp but hook a SS amp up to them and they would drive you from the room. Bright, fatiguing and light in the bass although the bass was always tuneful. Even pairing them with the class A SE SS Pass Labs Aleph 3 was a huge step in mitigating their bright signature but they are a real Jekyll and Hyde speaker if there ever was one

i agree with the statement above... one of my ventures into high efficiency speakers years back... don’t remember which model of cabasse... they were bright and otherwise grim and unruly

Any with poor treble.

Basically all of them have crossover issues, sibilance issues, beaming issues, dispersion issues, distortion issues.

Some of them are quite unbearable. Some are more tolerable.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a speaker you can turn right up and continue enjoying clean pristine treble?

Is there even such a thing?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a speaker you can turn right up and continue enjoying clean pristine treble?

Is there even such a thing?

Of course. If you dont custom tune to your ears speakers will sound bright. Now stop complaining and start enjoying the music

@whipsaw 

you are completely wrong I'm afraid. The green mountains don't even exist anymore. Theyve just disappeared as if by magic. They all used a cheap 6 inch car woofer that cost about 5 dollars and a cheap tweeter too. They never did good bass because the cabinets were too small for the woofers. They also used badly designed crossovers that were too shallow to protect the tweeters. They never achieved much success because they sounded so bad. I read in another thread that many customers paid green mountain audio for speakers which never arrived before the company suddenly disappeared, leaving these poor folks with losses of several thousands of dollars. They are the worst sounding speakers I have ever heard. 

kenjit –

Your extreme bias against GMA and the late Roy Johnson, and ludicrous attacks against them, have been well-exposed on this forum. Any readers who think that I am being hyperbolic should refer to this thread, on which Johnson himself exposed kenjit's claims for what they are:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/warmest-sounding-green-mountain-speaker

The fact that the manufacturer no longer exists is completely irrelevant. GMA had a strong following, and for a small, boutique manufacturer, did well enough to make owners of its speakers happy for ~20 years, prior to Roy's unfortunate death.

Nobody on this forum will take you seriously on this topic, and for good reason.