Hate to burst your bubble, Jimmy, but there are a lot more than a dozen speaker "sounds." You're looking for the easy way out, and there ain't one. Seems to me you want to choose a speaker based on other audiophiles' reactions to them. There are three problems here:
1) Every speaker sounds different, often vastly different.
2) Every listener's subjective reation to a speaker is different (and probablt different from yours).
3) A speaker in one room won't sound the same as a speaker in another, even to the same set of ears (and room size is only one reason why).
If ya really wanna be an audiophile, ya gotta get the speakers home, and set up in your room. That's doable, if you have dealers (including online dealers) who are willing to cooperate. You'll pay in shipping costs, but that's the price of admission to this sickness--I mean hobby.
That said, folks here can help you narrow the field (though you need to take every comment with several grains of salt--see #2 above). It would be helpful if you would tell us what price range you're interested in, room set-up, musical tastes. Even better, shop around a bit, find out what's available to you, and then seek out opinions on the most plausible candidates.
Just remember: Your ears, nobody else's.
1) Every speaker sounds different, often vastly different.
2) Every listener's subjective reation to a speaker is different (and probablt different from yours).
3) A speaker in one room won't sound the same as a speaker in another, even to the same set of ears (and room size is only one reason why).
If ya really wanna be an audiophile, ya gotta get the speakers home, and set up in your room. That's doable, if you have dealers (including online dealers) who are willing to cooperate. You'll pay in shipping costs, but that's the price of admission to this sickness--I mean hobby.
That said, folks here can help you narrow the field (though you need to take every comment with several grains of salt--see #2 above). It would be helpful if you would tell us what price range you're interested in, room set-up, musical tastes. Even better, shop around a bit, find out what's available to you, and then seek out opinions on the most plausible candidates.
Just remember: Your ears, nobody else's.