If you are in the Bay Area and want to audition Devore or Harbeth speakers, I recommend Tim at Tone of Music:
http://www.toneofmusic.com/products
Along the way, I also listened to Kef LS50 and Dali Mentor 6 speakers at Audiovision:
www.audiovisionsf.com
I thought the Kef speakers were incredible. For rock music they were perfect. If I hadn't heard the Harbeths first, I might have bought them. They just weren't as musical for acoustic recordings.
The Dali's had a very high wife acceptance factor. It helped that she was with me and made very clear her preference.
The problem with the Dali's is that I woke up at 2am in a cold sweat thinking about how they had completely flattened Jennifer Warnes' voice, turning into a mere pop tart of a thing rather than a thing of flesh and blood. Everything else they handled with aplomb. Who cares - I live for women vocalists.
http://www.toneofmusic.com/products
Along the way, I also listened to Kef LS50 and Dali Mentor 6 speakers at Audiovision:
www.audiovisionsf.com
I thought the Kef speakers were incredible. For rock music they were perfect. If I hadn't heard the Harbeths first, I might have bought them. They just weren't as musical for acoustic recordings.
The Dali's had a very high wife acceptance factor. It helped that she was with me and made very clear her preference.
The problem with the Dali's is that I woke up at 2am in a cold sweat thinking about how they had completely flattened Jennifer Warnes' voice, turning into a mere pop tart of a thing rather than a thing of flesh and blood. Everything else they handled with aplomb. Who cares - I live for women vocalists.
