Your favorite musical non fatiguing speakers?

Photon, I concede that had JSB been born in 1953, he would not have written high Baroque music. Your Part/Reich hybrid is a plausible hypothesis.

99.999% of all people are a product of their time, but people like JSB are a product of something else. They are influenced to an extent by what occurs around them, but they are not defined by context.

As for Bach's genius and faith, those are givens. As for his "pugnacity," considering his genius, his workload, the demands of his family, and the complete cluelessness of his co-workers in Leipzig, its little wonder that he gained a repetition for being somewhat abrupt.

I've seen JSB's IQ estimated at 165, which I think maybe a bit low. History has crowned him the greatest composer of all time, but his contemporaries knew him as a first rate organist and a third rate composer. No wonder he was a wee but short with his "colleagues."

Brownsfan is 99.999 % correct.
My only caveat might be that in the way humans are socialized, most of us are actually a product of our grandmothers time.A rare truly talented human can be in the present time.

There are perhaps 10 artists in Western History that transcended time. The Germans think Bach is the greatest artist, in any field, that ever lived.
Though when they get things wrong they get them really wrong, when they get things right, they get them really, really right.

My re-decision to sell was based on economics. The insurance company didn't pay as much on the Parsifals as they lead me to believe, and on top of that I realize I'll have to change my amp, speaker cables and possibly interconnects. I'll also be partially or completely out of pocket on them as well.

I was getting some high level frequency that was a bit fatiguing and that was traced surprisingly to my Cary Cinema 5 amp. (Not surprisingly actually considering it had been dropped, badly damaged and fixed and then subject to a power surge).

Someone came by the house with some $750 25 watt amp made in Hong Kong and my jaw hit the ground after how much better the Parsifals sounded. No more high freq fatigue and the Parsifals sounded stunning. The guy also brought some speakers he wanted to sell but after hearing the Parsifals said he's never had the experience of being in the room with the performers they way he did with the Parcifals. Didn't even bother connecting his speakers.

(And again this was from his 25 watt amp, not my Cary 200watt solid state).

But after getting shorted on my insurance payout for the Parsifals and now having to also buy an amp, DAC, speaker and interconnect cables (that were fried too) it makes sense to aim for a more humble system where I can put out considerably less cash on all fronts.

I've made the mistake in the past of wasting good speakers on average electronics. But it's with very mixed feelings after hearing how amazing the Parsifals sound with just incremental improvements in equipment. I can only imagine what they must sound like with really serious electronics behind them.

Hang on Larry. Get your power issues figured out. You sound like the guy in the movie "Powder", I think it was called.

Hope it all work out in the best!

Harbeth's