I suggest that you look at the thread on whether HL-5 are good as reviewers suggest. You will see that a number of owners (including myself, and I bought them recently) say that they listen to more music with the HL-5 than they usually do. If that is true, and it is certainly true for me, the lesson is pretty clear: this is a darn good speaker. It is hard for me to imagine a better test than that: you buy them and all of a sudden you spend more time with your records and CD's. Then of course them might offer the ultimate performance in terms of transparency and detail but is that what a good speaker should offer?
