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

Wow I can’t believe the negative crap I hear. Most of the speakers that were mentioned are pretty darn good.

Most people dont know and dont understand that it is the acoustic that create the Sound quality on par and sometimes more than the electronic design....

Very few people has lived a complete transformation of S.Q. coming from speakers embedded in a rightful way in the right acoustical setting....

Simple.... They " magically" attribute sound to the speakers.... 😁

Saying that  speakers X is "bright" make no sense most of the times save for very few small bad designed box....

They would better think about the huge impact of the  acoustical setting of the room, the vibrations affecting their speakers and the noise floor of the house electrical grid....

Wilson Watt/Puppys.
Not musical at all but more of a science experiment to see how much detail one can generate.
Tried the Watt 3, 5, etc. Way too analytical like nails on a chalkboard.
Various high end solid state and tube amps and cables. Even the lushest CJ gear sounded hard.
But my wife loved the looks. And they were an easy sell due to the glowing magazine reviews.

PS the Avalon Acurus and Eggleston Andra were similar to Watt just not quite so much of it. Tried many amps large and small, tube and ss and always result was hard and detailed sound, never felt like listening to the music. They delighted the new owner.

A lot of the speakers that have very fast impulse response sound harsh or bright with less than stellar electronics. Digital is especially tough on those drivers. I have been in the High end sales arena and most of the problems were people putting average electronics on extremely revealing speakers. I also have noted that the popular metal dome tweeters that are maligned used foam internal damping which breaks down and makes them sound horrible when that happens. I have seen 5 yr old tweeters rendered horrid by the foam degradation and anything over 10 yrs old has to be replaced. I shot several videos of the D25 and D26ag tweeters internals being bad.

B&W 603 s2. Harsh, dry, lack of engagement.

WOW, came here to add to the TOPIC, but I see it turned into some type of argumentative discussion that the moderator could not seem to 'reel in'.   But I would like to add............

Being a Klipschorn owner for 14 years which I enjoyed, I decided to try one of their Reference Premier towers.  So, bought the Klipsch flagship RP-280F models.  Liked them at first, but after a few months, I realized that the titanium, horn loaded tweeter was a bit too 'forward' to my liking.  I bought a quality pair of L-PADS and installed them using the bi-amp inputs to the tweeters.

Running the control to it's midpoint really helped.  But, after a time, I decided that it was just a bandaid and decided to do a complete departure from horns, cones and domes.  So, bought a completely new system.  Martin Logan eStats (after a long audition at my local brick and mortar audio dealer), and an amp and preamp of John Curl design.  If anything, the electrostats are a bit on the warm side, however, at 91 DB efficient, they have plenty of dynamic range, and in NO WAY do they fatigue the ears.  Keep in mind, the cross over is at 380 Hz. so the panel covers a wide range before the bass module comes into play. 

And the concerns about the blending of the two drivers an issue?,  those days are over with the latest models.   I DID just add the Dynamo 1600X to add the bottom octave below 35Hz.

So, there is my honest story.