Borresen X3."Hi Fi" or High End as in natural realistic sound ?

The X3s are some of the most natural sounding speakers I’ve encountered if they are setup well and driven with decent (not necessarily expensive or esoteric) equipment. Both their midrange and treble is more refined than you’ll get from any of the popular BBC-derivative brands but more detailed as well. In that sense they are true “high end” and “HiFi.”

If one determines they are “peaky” or unrefined they should revisit their sources and amplification. Many popular speakers with a rep for being non-fatiguing sound like distortion machines relative to the Borresen X series.

Maybe it’s not even the speakers, and instead the lower line of Aavik electronics they are typically paired with, or both. It’s a personal taste and opinion, and I’m not stating it as fact.

It’s not the speaker dude, it’s that AGDenmark front end ( i did get a taste of the Axxess box and the Aavik Class D naked emperor before i sent them back. Such is the nature of Class D naked emperors everywhere). Their streamers/dacs are good, stay away from those amps.

My X6 sounds juicy and chocolatey with other non-Class D electronics from other manufacturers.

Yeah in my audition the Axxess integrated produced some of those typical Class D traits, especially the roll-off of the lowest two octaves. Class D is leaps better than it was decades ago but I’ve still yet to encounter an amp of that topology that competes with good A/AB designs.