Beryllium Tweeters

I own Paradigm Signature 8s (v3). Yes ... they can sound bright, but I wonder how much is the fault of the source material. I say this because my new "tweak," a DEQX PreMATE tamed my S8s. They are now more time coherent and room EQ'd. Even still, some source material is "bright'ish" to me. I attribute this more to the source material than the Be tweeters. Presumably, as a result of the DEQX adjustments, my speakers should have a pretty flat FR.

Yamaha M1000

I own a pair of the Signature S6 v2. I never noticed them to be bright until I moved, and got an Emotiva pre to go with the Emotiva amp. It became harsh! I found, after 2 years of experimenting in which I finally started buying used speakers to get an idea of what's out there. I found that Paradigm is much closer to neutral than many others. I also found out that everything matters.

Speaker cable matters a lot at this level of quality, as do interconnects. I got all solid core, and it is much nicer/cleaner than fine strand. The difference here to my speaker cables was immediate and not subtle. It wasn't that I could tell that something was wrong and went on a cable search. I just experimented and discovered how good solid core is.

Same with interconnects. I ended up with solid core copper plated with silver by Morrow Audio. I can recommend without reservation. Imaging like crazy and a 3D soundstage I never knew my music had. My cables are MA3, and the speaker cable is Audioquest Type 4.

The other thing I did was replace the Emotiva entry level crap. Parasound Halo components, designed by the audio legend John Curl. the A21 and the P7 made my sound to the warm side of neutral. The mid range frequencies are amazing, vocals are jaw dropping with well engineered music.

Some people may be sensitive to higher frequencies, and want the highs drastically reduced. Most speakers out there will not work for them. BTW, I am not connected whatsoever to any of the brands I mentioned, they just really work well in my system.

The Reference 3A line now uses BE tweeters across the range. I have the De Capo BE's, but the Dulcet BE's would fall into your price range and they're marvelous.

The baffles are all overly small and require BSC to compensate but sometimes the BSC is omitted and manufacturers rely on owners care with placement close to room boundary. Toss in many require powerful amplification and its subsequent thermal compression leads to a hard sound. Its not the BE its the total design its used in that causes issues. If baffles slim or its a monitor its going to have issues.Today quality of sound in most loudspeakers are compromised by market expectations that small is good. And how many fit on standard shipping pallets is more of a design concern than sound quality.