Jim, the reason you might have to wait a while before calling Tvad or Paul is that when you mention your gear that way in your threads it degrades your credibility.
IMO its OK to steer the conversation into an area where you can offer correct and impartial advice which might relate to what you are selling, but leave it up to others to comment on the sound in such situations!
regular programming:
here are 6 speakers:
I've had very good luck with the Wilsons over the years
Sound Lab is the state of the art in ESLs, and for that matter, planars, although I really like the big Audio Analysis.
While not full range, the High Emotion Audio Bella Twin does everything else so well I am including it.
A surprise for me is the mbl101, which at shows always has been way too bright and stilted. Turns out its not the speaker; at shows its always been an all-mbl setup, and their preamp is their weak spot by a wide margin.
Of course I always show with Classic Audio Loudspeakers and own a set of the field-coil models. Before he introduced the field coils and the new first order crossovers, I felt that the CAL was a good compromise of what you want in a good speaker, but now I don't regard it as a compromise on anything that you want a speaker to be. Except small.
preferences:
I ignore speakers that cannot be driven easily with tubes or are built around the Voltage Paradigm, as such speakers rarely sound like real music. The exception so far to that has been the mbl and I do believe there are others. Since Voltage Paradigm rules ignore human hearing rules for the most part, its a real testament when such technology is actually musically convincing.
