purchasing US made speakers

Squeak_king_77, thanks for the mention.

Jacobsen1948, thanks for your reply. Glad to hear that you have no trouble following conversations. 

Very nice amp by the way! And you mentioned using an NAD amp for surround... so are these speakers for a multichannel system?

If so, do you use a center channel speaker?

Are you using subwoofers?

Can you tell me a little about your room?

How important is the width of the sweet spot?

Thanks!

Duke

One of the things that declines as we get older is the ability to easily follow voices and instruments in the presence of a lot of reflections. If you have noticed increased difficulty in carrying on a conversation at a party where a lot of people are talking at once, that’s it. The same thing happens when listening to music: Too many reflections will reduce clarity and intelligibility.  What was a nice, rich, enveloping reverberant field of yesteryear is now tiring to try to listen through. 

Imo something that makes sense in this situation would be highly directional loudspeakers, such that the direct sound dominates over the reflections. I can get more specific if you’d like, but it starts to become self-serving because this is the sort of stuff I do.

Also, you may still be able to hear high frequencies, but the volume level just has to be louder than before. So don’t necessarily stop your search at 8 kHz! I do agree with you that your situation places a premium on treble and midrange quality south of 8 kHz.

Duke