After buying this speaker last week i can honestly say im done with internet measurements and reviews. This isnt a perfect speaker for hifi people sitting on the edge of their seat with pen and paper writing down all the things they hear. But for people wanting to enjoy their music and relax this is excellent value. This is the first speaker where i didnt have to skip through my playlist for perfect tracks, everything plays very very well ( combined with sub).
I had speaker of 2000 euro, and they were always so revealing of all the flaws. Why would you want that. A speaker needs to be a little imperfect to be able to play older records as well.
My first speakers, in high school, were the Realistic MC-1000. The Dynaco A25 was a significant improvement during college. Post-college were Allison Threes, and other speakers along the way included the Boston Acoustics A40 (first series), EPI 100, Allison LC110, and the Large Advent 25th Anniversary Edition. I still have all of them, except for the MC-1000.
(Obviously, I favor what used to be called "The New England Sound." One complaint I had with acoustic suspension speakers is they are bass shy at the low listening levels I almost always played them. Rather than cranking them up to get the bass going, there was the temptation to use the loudness control, which would then muddy the sound. That was one reason why, along with an MC phono preamp, I bought a Mitsubishi DA-R20 receiver, now in storage. It has a midrange reduction knob instead of a bass boost button.)
The Allison Threes are, by far, the finest speakers I have ever owned, but at 45+ years old they are far from performing at the best. As fantastic as their sound used to be, there were recordings that I avoided playing on them because they just didn't sound good, so I didn't enjoy listening to them.
I have owned a pair of Wharfedale Denton 80th Anniversary Edition speakers for ten years. Despite their technical failings, or perhaps because of them, based on their sound the Denton is my all-time favorite pair of speakers. Some speakers, like the Allisons in their prime, are accurate and revealing. The results are often spectacular, but not always. Other speakers, like the Denton, exhibit what I think of as "euphoniously inaccurate sound," and everything does indeed sound good on them. Which I appreciate, considering that half of my listening these days is MP3/AAC streaming audio from a Logitech Squeezebox Touch, that's now running with Lyrion, the excellent replacement for Logitech Media Server.
Here's George Martin with a first generation Denton.