We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often

@wolf-garcia: Well whatta ya know, someone else who considers John DeVore a smug, sanctimonious kinda guy! I haven’t heard any of his speakers (which may sound great; Art Dudley, Ken Micallef, and Steve Guttenberg certainly thought/think so), but they sure don’t appear to be priced according to the industry-standard price-of-parts X 7. I guess DeVore considers his time much more valuable than that of mere mortals.

@bdp24 I'm appreciating your comments and I've heard DeVore speakers and the SuperNines sounded awesome.  There are so many excellent speakers available, so when I saw the price the speakers didn't make there way into my home.

To be fair there's a lot of excellent audio equipment my wallet has eliminated from consideration...

Since my wife doesn't like my speakers but we both love of tube gear, we're keeping our tube gear and now looking for efficient 'enough' speakers. I mean, my amp has 150wpc in pentode mode so what might be the problem? Woofers. But there are efficient speakers with built-in class D amplifiers that release the burden of your fine tube gear playing full range. Let the tube gear focus on the mids and tweets where the majority of the music lives.

Maybe I'll find out one day.

this month's Stereophile has a review of the Heresey speakers, which are super efficient. The reviewer used a coupe flea 2-3 watt amps then used a Parasound 21+ which had more balls and sounded more organic

For clarity ( no pun intended ) it is the Klipsch model Lascala, Revision AL5 that was just reviewed by Stereophile, but it IS part of the Heritage line. Klipsch does have a model called the Heresy, which also has been around a long time, which has also gone through many iterations. My best always, MrD.