Best speaker brands for transient response

That chiming strat guitar line is exactly what I'm talking about. Great song, great suggestion.

Life is a compromise. Don’t make the mistake of giving up one desireable parameter for another.

My goal here is to nail transients first, then on to some mix of soundstage, dynamics, and imaging. I don't want to spend serious $ on speakers and find that it can't do what the KLH 3s do in transients, even if it outperforms in other areas (which the 590s do in dynamics, for example). That will just bug me.

@boomerbillone thanks for the maggie recommendation, I need to go here them. They have an enthusiastic following which to me is no better endorsement of a product.

Well I played that on my setup that is BelCanto c5i to Sonus Faber Concerto Domus.  Veeeery nice!   So there’s one option. 

What is a transient response?  I have not heard of that term before.

I’ve heard or owned many of the aforementioned speakers and most of them don’t remotely match the Borresen X series for what you seek, be it treble, midrange, or bass. They are the closest to “perfection” I’ve encountered from any somewhat affordable speaker line. 

And don’t be put off by the “4.5 inch” woofers. Any other manufacturer would refer to them as a 6” woofer. At the very least they are as large as any other manufacturer’s “5.5 inch” woofers.

What is a transient response? I have not heard of that term before.

It’s really just a synonym for low distortion. The reason people conflate these notions is that many speakers are equipped with low distortion midrange or treble drivers, but nearly all <$10K dealer-sold speakers produce high distortion in the bass freqs. At best this can cause a speaker to sound somewhat “muddy” or “slow.” At worst, it has “slow” sounding bass coupled with a “fast” sounding tweeter, which then results in a perceived lack of coherency.