Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?

I'd say they're a good deal at that price point and easy to find because he keeps spelling them wrong. I think you should give them a few months but you seem really stressed. What are you going after next?

Mapman, Don't tread on my Bach!

Sorry, but I'm going to respectfully disagree with your thought that Bach had been of a more recent time he would have emulated the Devo style. For that, see Mozart or Handel. In actual fact, JSB continued writing music in the high Baroque style long (25 years) after virtually everyone else had moved on. His own sons considered him an anachronism. He got nothing but grief from the knuckle headed Liepzig clergy and his own family, but he kept right on producing the most divine, sublime music ever conceived at a superhuman rate.

JS Bach knew who he was. He knew what he was doing and why he was doing it, and it had nothing to do with considerations common to normal human beings.

Sorry, but the man who wrote, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaach, nun its mien Jesu hin, had no Devo.

I agree with you to a point Brownsfan, but all artists are a product of their times. Mapman's posited situation of Bach coming back or existing in our times is an entertaining amusement, but in reality old man Back could only exist in the the time and place he grew up. Should another artist with Bach's combination of religiosity, compositional genius, and personal pugnacity grow up today, they'd have to be influenced by the totality of their philosophical and artistic world and I have little doubt the 21st century Bach would write music that sounded very different. Maybe more like Aarvo Pärt meets Steve Reich than Devo though.

Photon, I concede that had JSB been born in 1953, he would not have written high Baroque music. Your Part/Reich hybrid is a plausible hypothesis.

99.999% of all people are a product of their time, but people like JSB are a product of something else. They are influenced to an extent by what occurs around them, but they are not defined by context.

As for Bach's genius and faith, those are givens. As for his "pugnacity," considering his genius, his workload, the demands of his family, and the complete cluelessness of his co-workers in Leipzig, its little wonder that he gained a repetition for being somewhat abrupt.

I've seen JSB's IQ estimated at 165, which I think maybe a bit low. History has crowned him the greatest composer of all time, but his contemporaries knew him as a first rate organist and a third rate composer. No wonder he was a wee but short with his "colleagues."

Brownsfan is 99.999 % correct.
My only caveat might be that in the way humans are socialized, most of us are actually a product of our grandmothers time.A rare truly talented human can be in the present time.

There are perhaps 10 artists in Western History that transcended time. The Germans think Bach is the greatest artist, in any field, that ever lived.
Though when they get things wrong they get them really wrong, when they get things right, they get them really, really right.