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Re: Whats speakers have an immediate, fast/sharp transient type of sound?

JM Labs have speed and snap that put a lot of speakers to shame.
The new Aurum Cantus speakers (with those wonderful ribbon tweeters) offer some really wicked immediacy for a really good price.

The only way to get better than that is ATC IMHO.

The Wilson Watt Puppy's are not quite as agressive - a beautiful speaker with "scientific like" neutrality. I like the Wilson Sophia's better - they have a variant of a Scan Speak split cone mid - and the vocal presence is just phenomenal as a result. The Wilson's use custom tweeters by Focal - inverted titanium. The Watt Puppies have an untreated dome, where the Sophia's employ the Focal "tioxid" coating. You should audition some Sophias - for about $10K you'd be hard pressed to find a better speaker IMHO.

B&W's 800 series have probably a tad bit more snap than the Wilson's but are still a very neutral and transparent loudspeaker. What I like about the 800 series is how the bass keeps up with the speed of the mids and highs - and rises up into the soundstage with everything else - a very homogenous presentation with precise imaging. The bass from the Wilson Watt puppies is just a tad bit more "bloomed" (not boomy or bloated by any means - just subtly more bloomed than the B&W's). Of all of the commercial loudspeakers out there, my opinion is that B&W's committment to crazy new innovation, build quality and performance results in one of the best possible combinations of speed, accuracy and listenability. The reason I say this is that every time I audition these speakers I never get that all too common "something isn't right" feeling. I just seem to sit and listen... listen in the STORE that is - they're priced out of my league. But they are not overpriced for how they are built or what they can do IMHO (like far too many of the speakers out there.)

Your words "immediate, fast/sharp transient" tell me you want an engaging loudspeaker. This is easy to find. Bring in some lively music that has "moved" you before and listen. If you start swaying in your seat and tapping your toes - you're probably on the right track. When rim shots cause you to jump like a gun went off... you're there.

Sorry - just babbling about speakers here.

Cheers,

Presto


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