Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?

Them Parsifals didn't last long, huh Larrybou? I see that you have them up for sale. What next?

Wow! Is this true? After all Larry has posted about his speaker search and all the positive words about the Parsifals, it would be nice for the rest of us and those who helped him in this thread if he would give some sort of explanation.

LOL. Ok here's the scoop. After having them a couple weeks the bass really opened up (normally a good thing). Except we live in a townhouse and hitting the magical volume level makes me feel uneasy about bothering our very nice neighbors.

Also there's more cable and electronics purchases ahead to optimize them. My previous speakers were a bit bright so all my cabling was on the dark side. Purist Museaus speaker and IC's. Plus the addition of the Cary tube preamp also darkened things a bit - but overall I LOVE it's sound. Should've gotten into tubes years ago. Even my DAC is a bit darker sounding and needs replacing.

If I just play classical or acoustic I can get by with a decent volume. But put on rock or electronic and the room starts to shake. Also normally a good thing but not the best in our situation.

I was torn between keeping the Parcifals and the added expense of a system makeover while not being able to play them at reference levels and going with smaller, less dynamic speakers more apropos for the smaller room and shared walls.

OTOH after getting heat from my wife about spending the money, she's fighting me now over selling them. She loves the look (which has never been the case with any of my speakers ever) and sound of them. Even my teen sons love how cool and modern they look - and as musicians love the sound as well (especially the bass).

Plus for the stuff I listen to the most it does sound quite addictive at moderate sound levels even with the overly dark supporting equipment. But overall it would probably be easier just to get better matched speakers for the room size and not have to change out all the gear. It's not hard getting smaller brighter speakers. Thinking maybe some Dynaudio monitors.

But I do go back and forth. Even with our elaborate home theater room I seem to be spending all my time listening to music with the Veritys in the house. Being sensible can be painful and conflicting sometimes.

Funny side note. In a neighbors be damned session I was playing "the Specials" enjoying that Ska percussion the Parcifals did a great job with. My wife came downstairs and we started dancing probably for 20 minutes or so. A while later my kids came home and THEY were dancing through several songs.

This was really shocking for my 19 year old tragically hip twin sons but the Veritys (and the specials) can do that to you.

Try turning the speaker bass cabinet so that it faces forward, this should lessen the bass that disturbs the neighbors.

Also, I know what you are talking about, I had to remake my cables after buying the Parsifals. I remember them sounding so great at the dealers, and when I got them home I was surprised that they sounded so dark. I too had been using darker sounding cables. I called the dealer, and he was using silver cables, which I had never cared for the sound of silver before. I bought some silver cables, and surprisingly, the Parsifals sounded like magic again. Thus learning my lesson that all cables can sound right with the right gear.