i have been at this pursuit since the early 80’s... after university, making some real money -- always been attracted to the sound of tubes, curing the harshness of cd and solid state electronics, making music sound harmonically rich like real music played live - excited about the possibililties of super sweet flea watt tube amps driving the right speakers - in fact i still have from the 00’s lovely wavelength cardinal xs’s, and cary 300b sei amps that i just won’t sell, not giving up hope entirely...
so it has been 35-40 years, been through many many high efficiency speakers - cabasse, klipsch, zu, jbl, audio note (lesser model), ref 3a, even had avant garde horns for a while -- i simply have never been able get fully comfortable with either the horn or paper driver colorations, or the tonal imbalance (bass lightness) of these speakers
the impact, speed and ability to project and get loud on a dime were always impressive, but to my ear, in my rooms/homes over the years, i could never make it work well enough, especially lacking in truth of timbre of vocals and piano, reeds... esp. when there are more instruments and dynamics in the mix, so to speak
on the to do list now are higher devores perhaps (and do i want to wrestle with newest cornwalls? -- cw3’s did not do it for me, not even close...)
got spatials recently, which are excellent but still not really proper flea watt amp candidates... ugh...
