Describe the sound of point source loudspeakers?


I have not heard any but I’m going to audition some in the near future. Can you provide any pointers or things I should be listening for? My current loudspeakers are von Schweikert db99se and they are definitely not point source. Thanks for your input.
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The Tannoy Dual Concentric speaker system is stunning - period !.
From near field listening at whisper quiet levels to room filling in row g of a auditorium.
  • The point source sound from the Tannoy DC design is used in recording studios and residential locations because it retains the accuracy of the spoken word regardless of listening distance. This is so important because most listening environments are not room/speaker friendly. 
  • Finally take a Tannoy DC speaker system and listen to spoken word at WHISPER quiet level - listen for the articulation & coherence of the speaker, you are now listening to the speaker minus the cabinet and it sounds so correct, so undistorted. Now replicate that same test with the mass of line array speakers - by comparison they sound broken !.
  • A 15" Cobalt Dual Concentric Tannoy speaker system mounted in a 200-300 litre bass reflex cabinet will play all styles of music with ease without fatigue. The Joe D’Appolito 2 & 2.5 way speaker design have wife acceptance factor and look pretty with there narrow baffle profile which is currently so fashionable but imo sounds thin & broken compared to the Tannoy DC

Cheers Johno