Best new loudspeaker

"for example, while i have heard many cone speakers, i am skeptical that i would like a cone speaker that i have not heard, based upon my vast experience"

I wish I had your vast experience MRT. As an admitted lover of panel speakers, I once decided to get out of the house a little more, and surprisingly discovered that what I really enjoy and not enjoy has pretty little correlation with underlying technology; rather, I found some moderate correlation with the 'house sound' of particular designers/manufacturers; yet more often than not, I simply fall in love with one particular model. . . but then. . . my problem is that I may be an empiricist with a strange distrust of inductive thinking.

Perfectly fine by me MRT. My admittedly non-inductive reading of your words is that the quads unlimited 57s were your favorite speakers at the time of submission of your last post.

MRT, why don't you tell us what 'new loudspeaker' of the planar/magnetic/electrostatic variety has caught your fancy instead?

Ouch. . . I seem to be hearing some smidgin of stridency emanating from the black backgroun. . . Is it mayhaps that darn Supraphon box with the Panocha Quartet again? Alas no. . . seems it's coming from a badly overdriven Sackbut struttin' its stuff in full cuivre! . . . I better engage that -3db treble filter on those Mahlers. . . This glare is driving me batty!

"since this experiement has not occurred you and i are engaging in probabilistic statements."

MRT, did you mean: "thought experiment"?

"i have not an am notb contradicted myself. i have a fine command of the english language. years of college and graduate school and writing have refined my ability to communicate."

Sic.