Audio Note AN/E vs. DeVore O/96

Full disclosure: heard them in different rooms with different equipment.  The Audio Note still has--after listening to many speakers over many years--the purest, most natural, timbral presentation of anything I've heard.  Clearest window to the sound.  The Devore's to me had a less welcoming sound; very good, no doubt, but somehow less "right".  YMMV.  What held me back with the AN's was the positioning, bass, and depth of soundstage.

If you ever get a chance, do try and hear the Spendor Classic 100.  This is what Spendor now calls what would otherwise be the SP100 Mk3.  I heard this in the same system with D7's, and the admittedly more expensive Classics significantly outperformed them.  Particularly in the treble, but really over the full spectrum; fuller, more meat on the bone, more characterful, a bigger sound.  They came very, very close to my all-time favs, the Harbeth 40.2.

BTW, as I said above, I found the Audio Notes perhaps the purest speaker, timbrally, that I've ever heard.  But again, I didn't go for the tight corner placement.

Heard the 0/93s, but never the chance at 0/96, which I suspect are significantly better, or Joseph.

The Graham Audio LS5/8 would be an interesting speaker to audition; it marries a tweeter to a 12" bass/mid unit.