Tannoy or Volti

The O/baby is new so I haven’t demoed, but this Stereophile here says Sonics is similar house sound.

The Devore O/96 dealer believes that while the O/93 sounds great very good, the O/96 is significantly sonically better in which I agree.  Likely the same O/96 vs O/baby.  So no, the O/baby may not be good enough to understand the O/96 Sonics, but it may be good enough to hear the Devore Orangutan house sound and if you like then track down a O/96 to demo

Side note- in addition to my high powered speakers, I’m also using the 100 Volti Rival to discover tube amp magic including flea watt amps down to 2wpc.  As the Volti is clear/neutral, I’d like to get a pair of the musical O/96s.  Then I can try tube amps on both - what fun!  Unfortunately, I don’t have the storage space …yet

For the $15K price point is has to be Yamaha NS-5000 designed by pro audio engineers. Visit the Yamaha Innovation Road museum in Hamamatsu, Japan and observe consumer audio's modest position inside the world's largest producer of musical instruments, and a household name in other durable goods.

The back wave absorbers look like tumble generators. The wood cabinet is basically a simple side job for their piano shop. As former serial users of toxic, brittle beryllium tweeters, they developed carbon fiber to get out of the beryllium business. They leveraged the carbon fiber for all drivers, for a single driver sound. Just move quickly to avoid the tariffs.

@kennyc 

After hearing both DeVores and Volti Audio my impressions are that the DeVores are more neutral but with a touch of bass bump and cabinet resonance warmth (I have a pair of O/93 incomming).  The midrange and treble are much more neutral and clear than the Voltis I have heard many times (Razz, Rival) which can be super smooth and rolled off.  Of course everything is system dependent too..

@kennyc I am going to audition as many speakers as possible in my area, Devore and Legacy Focus SE are on my list so far…my Jeff Rowland 125  amp might fare well with the Legacy..

what are you using for amps Kennyc 

Using Constellation Inspiration Stereo on my Vimberg MinoD, Coincident M300B Frankenstein MK II for my Volti Rival.