I'll answer simply appealing to whatever pops into my mind, sonically, when I think of the term "sophisticated."
MBL 101E speakers, in a couple different set ups.
They just did everything: limitless sounding resolution, imaging, dynamics, and the widest spectrum of timbral colors I’ve ever heard.
(I get a decent helping of that sound with my smaller MBL 121 monitors).
Although not tops, two total surprises for "sophisticated" sound for me would be the Crystal Cable Arabesque speakers, which seemed like a joke of a speaker to me, until I was able to spend time listening to them at a pal’s house. Tonally, they were MBL-like with a gorgeous clarity and tonality. I was similarly surprised by the Shun Mook Bella Voce speakers. Again, I don’t buy into the shun mook disc thing and didn’t expect much of speakers that looked like they were built in high school shop class. But they had some of the most delicately detailed, tonally rich, suave sound I’ve heard before or since.
MBL 101E speakers, in a couple different set ups.
They just did everything: limitless sounding resolution, imaging, dynamics, and the widest spectrum of timbral colors I’ve ever heard.
(I get a decent helping of that sound with my smaller MBL 121 monitors).
Although not tops, two total surprises for "sophisticated" sound for me would be the Crystal Cable Arabesque speakers, which seemed like a joke of a speaker to me, until I was able to spend time listening to them at a pal’s house. Tonally, they were MBL-like with a gorgeous clarity and tonality. I was similarly surprised by the Shun Mook Bella Voce speakers. Again, I don’t buy into the shun mook disc thing and didn’t expect much of speakers that looked like they were built in high school shop class. But they had some of the most delicately detailed, tonally rich, suave sound I’ve heard before or since.