Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?

How did I choose the verity's? Basically by violating every audio buying rule I've ever lived by.

Basically only buy after extensive auditioning including in my own house with my own electronics and recordings.

Instead I haven't even seen them in person yet and only heard them on YouTube (although excellently recorded and sounded fantastic). Crazy crazy crazy.

Like most people here I couldn't begin to count the times I've auditioned raved about equipment and thought it was junk.

There's a precedent though - I went to a CEDIA show once and bought a complete home theater system including speakers from Cary Audio. Never heard a note but had faith in the brand (and a nice discount). The sound was sublime from day one and one of the best buys I've ever made.

Since I live in the Metro Baltimore and D.C. Area we have more high end stores than most. I auditioned Sonus Faber, Dynaudio, B&W, Vienna Acoustics, Totem, Golden Ear, Audionote, Proac etc.

I didn't find any of them terribly thrilling for under $10k. The few that sounded well rounded in attributes were too aggressive/fatiguing sounding (as seems to be the fashion these days). This was one reason I started this thread.

You all led me to the Veritys which seemed to have all the attributes I was looking for in spades. There were lots of well detailed reviews that were almost unanimous in describing the kind of sound I was looking for and in agreement with what you all were saying here.

Then desperate for anything I listened to them on YouTube with headphones in a very well recorded video. The sound was stunning and very much in line with the consensus.

Finally I called Verity to find out what I could from the sales guy and ended up speaking with one of the founders who even had the same last name. Yes the stars were lining up on this one.

Of course the Veritys are much more expensive than the speakers I was auditioning so I'd expect them to be better. Fortunately there was a used pair on Agone that was at the top end of my budget.

So I pulled the trigger - but somehow I'm fully expecting this to be a satisfying blind buy like the Cary gear. We'll soon see.

RCA MI Shearer horns with multicells easy to listen too for hours on end always exciting and enjoyable.

That 'distortion' is the room, not the system.

Nice Larrybou, when do you expect to have them? I worked my way through the Verity line starting with the Tamino, awesome speaker. After that I made several mistakes/progressions with Totem, Devore, Zu, etc.

Next I listened to a pair of Fidelio Encores at a local shop that I love, Goodwin's High End, in Waltham, MA, and knew I had to get back to the Verity line again. I bought them. A couple years later they had a pair of used Parsifal for sale and I took the hour ride to get them. The rest is history. I think I'm done unless I hit the lottery or downsize. I don't play the lottery.

I have worked for a few dealers over the years and have had Wilson, Devore, Magico, and Rockport speakers in my house. For my space and budget the Verity's are the best. I'd be a Rockport owner if I had a big room and big budget. There are better speakers and it all comes to personal taste... except Wilson Audio... Can't stand them. Wilson survives on marketing hype.

I recommend setting them on heavy towels without spikes, and move them around. Have fun. Please share your feedback.

bjesian - thanks for sharing you're speaker progression. It's very encouraging obviously and makes me all the more antsy to have these baby's show up at the door. Not sure on delivery yet but it should be sometime next week.

Despite all the money and nice gear I've gone through in the past I don't consider myself an audiophile. I don't care about hearing peoples toupees move while they're playing the trumpet or even all that much about perfect sound staging etc.

As a former musician I just look for instruments to sound the way they sound. In this ridiculous industry that alone is seriously compromised until you've shelled out big dollars - and I know it doesn't have to be that way.

All this is to say that if the Parcifal O's sound half as good as they're supposed to - it should be the end of the line for me. Even the Cary speakers had me contented. Now if we can just do something about the power surges around here...

BTW why do you recommend towels instead of spikes?