I received these speakers about a month ago.Since then, I have put 88 hours on them. I have owned many speakers[probably in the neighborhood of 75 or so]Those include PHY both open baffle and Musical Affairs, Feastrex 5 inch field coil again open baffle and in a custom cabinet built to Feastrex specs, Coral Beta 8's and Altec 604's in different cabinets..These x-5's in my opinion and in my smaller size room have bettered all of them..I can't believe how good they sound. Very open soundstage [easy to feel in the room with the performers. The AMT delivers excellent highs with no fatigue..Bass is well controlled and deep. To me, there are no limitations in their presentation.I dont usually write reviews [have only done one in the past], but I felt like Clayton deserves these comments, both for the speaker itself and his fine service..