Yes please.
They're the best speakers I've heard. I think they are even better than the Orions, which were previously the best I had heard.
They have the dynamics and effortlessness of the best horn systems without any horn sound.
I find it very hard to describe their sound because it just depends on the recording. For instance, I have a number of Telarc recordings of The Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall. I can sit and listen to these and it sounds like I'm at a concert, except I didn't have to drive all the way up there. (It's not perfect, but it's astonishingly close.)
I have some recordings that sound pretty bad, and I just don't care to listen to them anymore, but most recordings are very enjoyable with these speakers.
I also listen to rock, blues, and jazz, as well as using these speakers for movies. What I hear seems to be very close to what I have heard onstage and in the recording studio.
It's like using a very good pair of headphones, but with bass you can feel and a sense of openness and a soundstage you don't get with headphones and normal stereo recordings.
When I think of all those adjectives that people use to try to describe the sound of a stereo system, I think of them in terms of recordings now. I think that a recording is dynamic, transparent, detailed, has impact, etc. The speakers just get out of the way and let what's recorded come through.
There are some drawbacks. My wife doesn't really like the way they look. The speakers I had before this looked more like furniture and she prefers that look. However, once I got her to listen to them she "got it," and now she is very fond of them indeed - or at least very fond of listening to them.
They really do require that you use subwoofers, and 3 is the recommended number. So it's a more complex system than just a pair of floorstanders or whatever. (The subs don't need to be that expensive. I paid under $400 total for mine.)
I suppose that these speakers have sort of ruined the hobby for me. I no longer have any real desire to check out other speaker systems. I don't want to look into new equipment at all. I just listen to music.
I think I might move up to a pair of Abbeys at some point, but I'm in no hurry to do so.
