Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?

@ Kidmann, wow!, I see you do not know anything about Tara labs cables!, I laughed so hard at what you said about Tara labs cables!, Technical?, really!, your kidding, right?, I bet you do not know that Tara labs just introduced 6 new cables, A new flagship cable for the first time in 17 years!, Then you said something about gauge of the cables, The new Grandmaster Evolution interconnect sports the lowest capacitance in the industry, A mere 2 picofarads!,with dual mono-block grounding station, then the Grandmaster Evolution speaker cables are the most flexible money can buy, the linearity of a 32 gauge conductor, 288 conductors per-channel, the gauge size, Really?, The gauge size is 000, thats an area of 85,000 squaremillimeters per channel!, you really should research and go and listen, before you make such false statements about Tara labs cables, your description of ringing and not smooth is as far from the actual truth as can be!

What knucklehead tried to turn a speaker thread into a cable thread anyway???

Geoffkait, everything is involved in increasing distortion when the volume goes up.

First is your impression, even the base level of distortion becomes more intolerable when the volume goes up.

Second, the transducers, the speakers or headphones, absolutely rise in distortion with higher volume levels. Most speakers compress badly, and when compression is involved there is a lot of distortion going on.

Third, the distortion of the electronics goes up in almost all cases. There are exceptions for electronics, where the distortion goes down as power output goes up, but that's not normally the case.

Kiddman, if your theory is correct, that gross distortion in an audio system is produced at louder than normal volume by rising distortion in the speakers and distortion in the components, let me ask an innocent question: Why would anyone in his right mind spend $10K, $25K, or $100K on a system that is unlistenable at higher volumes?

Because that elevated distortion, let's say .01% for argument's sake, might not outweigh the higher SPL experience for any particular listener.

Glad to help.