Speaking as one who is no fan of Klipsch products, but who has sold them professionally, the latest Forte should be the ticket for your son...quite sensitive, and much fuller range and better balanced than La Scalas, and therefore more forgiving. Driven by a Rogue Pharaoh tube/ class D hybrid integrated they should do their best. Consider reminding him too of the long term damaging effect of overly loud playback on one's hearing. It shows up decades later...believe it!