Harbeth vs Vandersteen vs Sonner

i would agree w the statement that lossy cabinets a la spendor harbeth et al provides a sympathetic distortion in the mids and midbass, warming up and giving added body to many types of music, and critics are accurate to say there is a level of homogenization that results in the sound character... same can be said of many tube amps, and we certainly love them

nothing wrong with that though -- we are first and foremost pursuing beautiful sounding music that moves us, after all, and 'listenability' is viewed by most appropriately as an asset rather than a liability...

'straight wire with gain' end to end is woefully over rated...

vandy and harbeth longtime respected speakers, for accurate, musical, coherent sound

sonnet?  never heard of them... but new stuff can be good too, sometimes...