Looking for my Final Pair!!


Been through the high end maelstrom for over 30 years and although I have enjoyed the ride, I desperately want to find speakers that exude dynamics, tone and presence.  I want to be transported to the Village Vanguard where The John Coltrane Quartet are performing any night I desire.  I want to feel the timbre of his sax 🎷. When I close my eyes I want to be enveloped by the atmosphere of the space and awash with the impact and emotion being expressed by the musicians.  I don’t want to hear what the engineers hear after they mix a recording...I want to be in the studio when the tracks are being laid down!  So far, Tannoy Heritage Arden have come to my attention, Klipsch Cornwall IV’s, JBL S4700’s or perhaps Spatial Audio X3’s?  Help
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The whole talk of upper frequencies is comical. I am 40 and can’t hear anything above 15khz. I am far more careful with my hearing (as I am sure many of us are) than the average person too. It is just the nature of the beast. 
I think most people should get a real hearing test. They might be shocked at what they can or more likely can’t hear. 
It is more likely that breakup modes of the drivers creep into lower frequencies that we can hear but that is not related to horns but the drivers them selves. A compression drivers should have a higher break up node as the driver is moving less distance for the same SPL. 
O M G ....😳 Thought what I was hearing through the Cornwall’s sounded amazing, but as I was listening to Jackson Brown Live this morning, it occurred to me that the last pair of horn speakers I had sounded their best with my Anticables Level 3 speaker cables and jumpers. So...in they went and the level of gloriously golden sounding resolution became instantly apparent!  I haven’t heard this degree of sublime openness and definition while maintaining just the right balance of extension, midrange purity, warmth and complex tonality since I had my Watt/Puppy 6’s fronted by Levinson Reference gear and Transparent cabling.  It’s like an open window compared to just a clean one...nothing between me and the musicians now!!