Warm romantic & detailed


Good morning Gentlemen & ladies... 

I'm just starting to toy with idea of replacing my Focal 1038's... No matter how I treat my room, or what equipment I throw at it I just can't seem to tame the harsh highs on this speaker. 

I'd like to stay in the same price range of the Electra's (7/8k), I don't mind buying used, the musts for me at this point are: Warm, romantic, yet detailed... It would be beautiful to just sit and listen and not have ear fatigue after 15 minutes of listening. 

Can you please recommend something? 
jeffinnh76

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I used to have the same problem until I tried Proac, Response line. No more listening fatigue and as a bonus, they are very forgiving speakers. Unless I was listening too jazz, audiophile recordings or the odd popular album that happened to be well recorded, mostly sounded terrible. Now virtually every album sounds at least 'very good' all the way to spectacular. 
The forgiving nature of the response line does not affect the great transparency... 

Bass is very surprising for size of speakers. Powerful and tight. To me the whole response line are really fun speakers to listen too. The studio range is good, but there's a huge gap in quality and they don't have the same "warmish" sound.

The description of what you're looking for sounds a lot like what I had been looking for, for years. I haven't bought a non-ProAc speaker since. They're are plenty of good choices out there but all ProAc Response speakers sound perfect to my ears.

I also like the higher end Dali speakers but they don't correspond to what you're looking for as much as the ProAc's.

Good luck!