Curious what people think is the best "value" high end speaker (~5K to 15K)

@russbutton Just how good, in comparison to other high end designs, is the Linkwitz Orion in your estimation?

As for the LX521, I've never heard anyone mention anything sounding better.

@russbutton , thanks for your feedback on the Linkwitz speakers. I'm totally in agreement with you that the Orion is by far the more elegant looking speaker. The LX521 might be one of the best loudspeakers ever built, it sure has a huge amount of science backing it up, but it looks like it belongs in a church. Maybe you could grow to like it, I don't know.

I beginning to suspect, as richier31 mentioned, that open baffle designs are inherently superior to any box designs.

The problems of cabinet resonances are well known and other than the Harbeth thin-walled approach it is difficult to see what else can be done. I remember Alan Shaw pointing out the difficulty of controlling the complex internal cabinet pressures and resonances especially once you consider that the thinnest and weakest part of a loudspeaker cabinet is the cone material itself.

Open baffle designs, on the other hand, appear to cut that Gordian knot in one go.

@steve59  yes you have to carefully read between the lines for implied criticism. It might prove to be beyond your tolerance.

No such thing as a perfect review, you never see one. Besides this month’s flavours of the month will soon become also-rans as far as reviews go, or never mentioned again.