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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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dsper
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@ozzy62 
I, for one, love my Cornwall IVs....
ozzy62, can you comment on how the Corwalls sound different with tube amplification versus solid state?

I've only heard then once with McIntosh solid state...

I have a Don Sachs preamp on order by the way.

Thanks, Dsper


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ozzy62
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I have only used tube amps with the cornwalls, so I can’t comment on that.
dsper
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@roxy54  I actually tried a bought an inexpensive set of planar magnetic supertweeters to augment my speakers last year, and found them to be disappointing. The ones that I bought sounded sort of "dry". However, 3 weeks ago, I finally bought a set of the Townshend ribbon supertweeters, and I have to say that they are as good as I had heard that they are.
So how do you hook up these supertweeters, say, to Cornwall IV's for example??
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roxy54
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It's easy. If the speakers are biwire, hook them up to the tweeter terminals on top of the regular speaker wire. The planar magnetics didn't come with any wire, and I had to do it myself, but the Townshends came with all of the wire and hookups. It took about 60 seconds to connect them.  
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The Aperion planar magnetic super tweeters sound nice...breaking in nicely!  They have adjustable level and crossover controls and WBT connections.  Got matching cables for $70 really nice quality.
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