I'll wade in with a counter view, if it's OK with you.
When you have the required room, what is there to miss with a panel? I have heard many speaker systems, and the most fulfilling have always been panels.
I have been amazed at the improvement of coil speakers in transparency. Panels just give food for imagination better, IMO.
I vividly remember listening to a train of the highest quality coil speakers pair by pair, in a really great room. They all sounded like they were family to my Boston Acoustic towers of the time. Don't get me wrong, the refinement and flatter frequency surely was admirable. They just didn't surprise me. Then I heard my first panel speaker, the Apogee Scintilla.
Yes, with the right room, front end, and big amps, the great dipoles will kick ass at all frequencies in my experience, plus they stand in a class by themselves through suspending the stage effortlessly in space.
Nope, I can't think of a single reason to switch.
When you have the required room, what is there to miss with a panel? I have heard many speaker systems, and the most fulfilling have always been panels.
I have been amazed at the improvement of coil speakers in transparency. Panels just give food for imagination better, IMO.
I vividly remember listening to a train of the highest quality coil speakers pair by pair, in a really great room. They all sounded like they were family to my Boston Acoustic towers of the time. Don't get me wrong, the refinement and flatter frequency surely was admirable. They just didn't surprise me. Then I heard my first panel speaker, the Apogee Scintilla.
Yes, with the right room, front end, and big amps, the great dipoles will kick ass at all frequencies in my experience, plus they stand in a class by themselves through suspending the stage effortlessly in space.
Nope, I can't think of a single reason to switch.