Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver

@mrmanisundaram Thank you! I might do that in the next year or so. I see there is an Audio Note dealer in town, too. Flights from Denver run as low as $27 each way. Small price to pay to hear two very top candidate speakers. 

Ok, just summing up what I've learned so far about this topic, there are a few different axes to navigate.

Sensitivity — while it's clear that there are speakers around 89-90 db and 100 db, what range between those, say, 93-96db (and considering ohms, and graphs about all this as well) is out there. Many options have been raised on this thread.

Re-sale — I'm really learning how many very good speaker companies there are out there that one would never hear of without a forum. That's a great thing to learn, but if this is not an endgame speaker, how hard or at what cost would re-sale be? A Devore would sell easily; Coherent audio or NSMT? Might take a hit. (Then again, one might not pay as much up front...)

Design types — ribbon, concentric, active woofer, open baffle, MTM, etc. Again, a variety of styles to navigate here, all to be  cross- referenced with top two factors.

And, yes, of course anything above has to be heard, tried in one's room with one's gear, music, etc. But the reason I single out the above axes of factors is that one needs to figure out which to spend the time trying.

Given the above, did I miss any major axis?

But re-selling is probably harder for all these lesser known brands, eh?

I thought about that before I bought my Bache Audio Tribeca’s. However, I compared the Tribeca’s side by side in my room with speakers that cost slightly more. The Bache’s not only sounded better but they stopped me from buying an even more expensive speaker. 

I heard the Living Voice in my home with an 300b SET amplifier, and they sounded great. Border Patrol (BorderPatrol.net) is the US representative. The only issue is the size of the room. My overall listening space is large, and the LV did not fill it as well as did the Zu Definition 4. The LV sound reminded me of AudioNote speakers that I heard at dealers or at shows. 

I’m in Denver and have some Zu Diety Weekend speakers so Zu but not one of the more expensive offerings.  Should give you the general flavor though.   I run them with Bottlehead 2a3 SET monos.   I’ve also had line magnetic 845 SET and Prima Luna push pull on them and think the current setup sounds right.  Anyways, drop me a message If you want to see the setup.