Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?

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.

The problem is the room they're in. To get them far enough from the front wall one of the speakers would have the bass module firing right into the side of a love seat if the woofers were facing forward. This is one reason I thought the rear firing bass module would be a good solution. .

The other solution would be monitors and a sub obviously. Or I could try moving the speakers much closer together and turning the bass forward - but both of those things would limit depth and soundstage as per Verity.

One last option is moving them to the home theater room since they were designed by the builder with extra sound shielding. All the HT speakers are in wall etc. but it's a blacked out room with theater seating no windows etc. not where I want to kick back and listen to music.

I've always lived in large single family homes so these are all constraints I'm tying to adjust to.

Interesting about the silver cables. Which ones are you using?

Ok I tried them with bass firing forward. As Verity said most of that amazing bass depth and spaciousness has gone. But it IS more neighbor friendly and doesn't sound bad. I'll see if it grows on me.

After playing them for awhile in the forward woofer config they're really sounding good. Not rattling the walls with 3d deep liquid bass but excellent bass anyway and probably even more coherent and correct sounding (at least in my listening space).

Plus the speakers look more impressive like this, can be closer to the walls, and even sound better with my darker cables.

Knowing they were recommended to face backwards it didn't seem possible that the same woofers with the same output could also sound correct with the very different job of playing into the room.

Actually with the woofers facing in either direction the bass sounds better than any speaker I've ever owned including Cary Silver Oak 3s, B&W 804s and others. The design and engineering that went into these Veritys is truly impressive. No longer for sale.