My home stereo speakers "are" Canton CT-1000s. I quote "are" because I haven't had a stereo set up in my living room in a long time, I mainly listen in my office/studio out back, where I'm listening to studio monitors. But I did really love the CT's. I'm mulling whether to pull the beasts out of the closet to sit aside my new 77" OLED, or audition some slimmer tower speakers—the latter makes more sense for the room, but I did enjoy them in the living room back when.
Looking to put in a modest stereo back in '85, I checked out quite a few speakers, and Canton book shelves where pretty decent for the price. Then I had to go and compare them with the next ones up, CT-1000, and it was over. The smaller ones were pleasant, but the crafty old owner of the audiophile shop put on Yello's Ciel Ouvert, and I couldn't live without the bass extension after hearing it. I auditioned similar KEFs and others, but the Cantons were it. The CT-2000s were nice but I wasn't going to pop myself into yet another price category, so avoided listening to them much.
They didn't just go low, the low end was tight and the whole range was well managed. I was working on a DSP plugin, and my employer had given me a pair of popular budget studio monitors—I told them to get me something flat, because I couldn't evaluate the tone of the product I was making for them, and eventually talked them into getting me a pair of Genelecs. In the meantime, I told my co-worker that I'd bring in one of my Catons, which I decribed as "flat". He chuckled and said, "well, they won't be flat, but bring it in." He had worked for Mackie previously (I think on the HR824 studio monitors?), and didn't mind telling people their ears weren't as good as they thought they were. So I brought one in and hooked it up, he stood in front of it as I play some music. The song ended, he stood motionless for several seconds, said, "they're flat", and nothing more was said about it.
But the product I was developing was a guitar amp simulator, so produced piercing high end. On one interation, I had a gain variable set at an accidentally insane value and fried the mid range voice coil instantly. I had the mid speaker repaired, but it had higher output, enough to notice (not from a casual listener, but I knew exactly how they should sound). By that time I wasn't really using my home system anyway, but I would want to address that if I decide to use them again.
Here without their perforated metal screen covers (from the web), for a size reference (a covered port in the rear):
