Quad ESL owners question

as a quad esl owner, previous quad 63 owner, magnepan owner, previous tympany owner and hybrid infinity owner, i can say that i would never be satisfied with any speaker but another panel speaker.

i could easily live with some of the martin logans, the apogee duetta signature, the infinity servo statics and possibly (i'm not sure), the piega c 10. i'm not sure about the piega because it is a hybrid.

my 2nd speaker is a pair of magnepan 1.6s. the esls and magnepan sound similiar.

the spendors and many other speakers having drivers in cabinets have cabinet colorations.

the differences between spendors, proacs, rogers, etc., and quad 57s are huge. while there is no explanation for taste, i find it surprising that anyone who loves the virtues of quad 57s can appreciate a cone design. i have yet to hear one that i would want to own, especially after listening to quads.

i recently reviewed a decent monitor speaker, using a modified heil tweeter. they were no match for quads.

most "box" speakers sound "boxy", whereas panel speakers do not have box calibrations.

i guess one man's trash is another's treasure.

for the record, i could live with any panel speaker, from magnepan to martin logans, apogees, audiostatic, analysis audio, and other panels. cones have colorations which i find annoying.

having studied percussion instruments in my teen years and became a member of my high school band, i actually played bass drums and also, occasionally snare drums.

there is nothing boxy about a snare drum, bass drum or tom tom, there is a particular timbre of each of the aforementioned instruments, but in either case it does not remind me of the vabinet of a loud speaker.

anyway, if a wood cabinet resonates at a a specified frequency or depending upon the design, resonates at more than one frequency, the timbre of certain instruments may be affected.

i am interested in natural timbre. that is the reason i prefer panel speakers.