Thiel Owners

   Would my and unsounds observations of a more relaxed sound from fully coherent box and cone speakers also apply to full-range panel speakers like Martin Logan CLS, Quad ESL? 
   And for that matter all the single driver cone and box speakers like Zu, Dayton, Tannoy, and many small companies making simple efficient speakers for the SET market?
   There must be a reason I've been a headphone junkie since forever...

Audeze planar headphones ftw on that headphone junkie note.

@sdecker, while those  panel speakers might be somewhat better at time and phase coherence than most typical speakers, they don’t really qualify, as it still takes time to cross the surface of those drivers. The Quad ESL’63 are a notable exception with their time coherent concentric rings. The somewhat more typical dynamic single drivers, again can be better, but still usually don’t qualify. It takes a concerted effort to achieve true time coherence that can be verified with an appropriate step response.
 I do not usually share your appreciation for headphones. The in your head presentation just sounds weird to me. I can appreciate that for some studio productions made without musicians present, that headphone listening might indeed be a more accurate reproduction of the music’s genesis. Such listening for me is very infrequent.

tonywinga

Good to see you here. A beautiful room and system!

Happy Listening!

2nd Note;
the Light Oak finish is very attractive. I have seen several models in this color over the years.

Happy Listening!