All the technical info and how it relates to a speaker sounding dynamic is great, but I find it very interesting that you equate "dynamic" with "the sound of a pretty soprano piercing my [your] heart". That is a perspective that I can relate to. The sound of a pretty soprano is not the musical example usually used to discuss dynamics; if one is used at all. When a speaker sounds alive it doesn't matter wether it is particularly extended (in either direction), nor is necessarily able to play very loud. The problem that I have found is that many of the most alive sounding speakers that I have heard (usually horns), are not very "pretty" sounding tonally. Since assembling a satisfying system is always about compromise somewhere in the chain, and mixing tonal flavors (wether we want to admit it or not), I have found the solution to be a reasonably dynamic speaker (not necessarily the "most" dynamic) with good tonality well matched to tube amplification which to my ears tends to have more of that elusive "alive" sound than most ss.
Having said that, the "most dynamic" speaker I have ever heard was the Jadis Eurythmie; but I hated how they sounded tonally. Give me electrostats with well matched tubes any day.