Wharfedale ha ha. Ah, we listened to a lot of $2k/pair speakers about 2 years ago. Dynaudio I respect tremendously for continuously hewing to an ideal of clean transient reproduction. Fine stuff. KEF we felt about on par. Revel somewhat better. Wharfedale Linton Heritage, ah how nice! Lovely sound throughout Audio Element's open plan shop. Monitor Audio Silver 300 also great, the only non-horn speaker I've heard at less than insane prices that would let you really crank hard rock and metal (I listened to Iron Maiden's entire Piece Of Mind and some live Motorhead). I really want to hear the MA Silver 500 7G after the positive review in Stereophile.I like a somewhat warmer sound and hate sharp shrill highes what hurt my ears...Tannoy or dynaudio
The concentric driver used in that Tannoy line is garbage. I used to own the XT6F and the Amir's measurement of the driver makes sense with respect to what I heard. See the review for the XT6. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/.../tannoy-revolution-xt-6-speaker-review.14662/
A friend had the MA Silver 300 and sell it. Highs are too bright. He said when play a track from ACDC it hurt his ears.Wharfedale ha ha. Ah, we listened to a lot of $2k/pair speakers about 2 years ago. Dynaudio I respect tremendously for continuously hewing to an ideal of clean transient reproduction. Fine stuff. KEF we felt about on par. Revel somewhat better. Wharfedale Linton Heritage, ah how nice! Lovely sound throughout Audio Element's open plan shop. Monitor Audio Silver 300 also great, the only non-horn speaker I've heard at less than insane prices that would let you really crank hard rock and metal (I listened to Iron Maiden's entire Piece Of Mind and some live Motorhead). I really want to hear the MA Silver 500 7G after the positive review in Stereophile.
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-500-7g-loudspeaker
https://www.stereophile.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-300-loudspeaker
https://www.stereophile.com/content/wharfedale-linton-heritage-loudspeaker
We got these, even better sounding, though can't crank quite as much as the Silver 500
https://www.stereophile.com/content/focal-aria-936-loudspeaker
That was not my experience but Upscale had the speakers in the middle of a large, damped room = much less reflection/reverb. If your friend had especially a somewhat bright room then yeah that could turn out differently. I was just really shocked that the speakers themselves didn't turn into a distortion mess playing heavy metal (though I did not try AC/DC at that time. Hey which track(s) hurt his ears? Some of that discography-Flick Of The Switch for instance-are not helping nice audio reproduction.)A friend had the MA Silver 300 and sell it. Highs are too bright. He said when play a track from ACDC it hurt his ears.