Speakers for string Quartets

fascinating read,

Re tonality of speakers Im amazed to hear strong recommedations for Vanderteen.

My limited experience of that touted brand was entirely negative,

One of our respected audio store here in Toronto was offerin a record cleanibg service for LPS back in the day.

About 10lps having been cleaned and dried he played one back on the house demo system-the speakers being Vandersteen Towers.

Well the lps were cerainly cleaned up but the sound was brutal.

Id assume this upscale shop wdve had the speakers properly set up in their listening room and paired with sympathetic electronics but granted the reputation of the brand very likely not.

At any rate my experience and that long ago.

Most posters are blasting past the amplifiers you have.  You would need to decide between the lower powered ones and higher power.  Most recommend choosing a speaker and then getting the right amp to power it.  For timbral purity with lower powered amps, such as you mainly have, I'm going to repeat my recommendation of Audio Note.  I was at Deja Vu in Washington DC and put on my favorite CD of English viol consort music (the antecedent of the string quartet) and I was blown away.  

Consider a single driver speaker that is not a horn, e.g., Voxativ. This German speaker uses the cabinetry to drive bass notes, like a piano. It is acoustically designed using many of the principles of high end piano design.. Vox’s are high efficiency, very fast, and not cheap. I run my pair with a 300B SET.

 "music specific" speaker is simply silly.

I agree!

I have the Magnepans. 7's and l think they really excel with stringed instruments, in my opinion. Any Maggie's for that matter.The YouTube vid I've attached of my stereo rig should give some indication Keep in mind that l feed my Maggie's with a very power amp with lots of watts/current and l also have one SVS ultra 13 sub 

My setup and equipment is in the description 

Watch "Magnepan .7's & audio system" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/WmHjTmDRO88