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What speaker do you passionately want to demo?

Beyond the slight curiosity of what speaker you'd "like" to demo (example: every Klipsch horn speaker), what speaker(s) would you "passionately" love to demo?  A brief explanation of "why" you like these speakers would be beneficial.

I'll start:

MBL 101 X-treme - almost a decade and reviewers still say it's amongst the best they'd ever heard.  Probably should be matched to the MBL Electronics

Living Voice Vox Olympian Horn - it's wood (maybe sounds more warm/organic), it's a horn, and it consistently gets good reviews at the Munich High End audio shows.

Muraudio SP1 - Electrostatic + cone hybrid speaker that received many rave reviews.  It's not an easy task successfully marrying the fast electrostatic to the slower cone to sound seamless.  This speaker was on my short list to purchase.

Voxativ AC-XP field coil driver - both Voxative and Pure Audio Project speaker offer the Voxativ AC-XP field coil driver as an optional upgrade, but it's an additional ~$7k (yow).  The reviews leads me to believe that this field core driver is sonically "significantly" superior above other choices.  

Mike Lavigne's Evolution Acoustics MM7 in his dedicated sound room.  The sonics of demoing speakers at storefronts or audio shows can be problematic depending on the audio chain and the room setup.  MikeL has a matured optimized setup that is sonically recognized as excellent by other serious audiophiles.  
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lpretiring
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Bayz not yet available base model!
 Heard their flagship Counterpoint model briefly near the end of Axpona 2019. That model left me wondering if it could do all aspects of sound reproduction as lifelike as what I was able to audition with the limited time I had with them at the show. 
All information that I have seen regarding this the past 2 years has been glowingly positive.
Their flagship model is a numbing 6 figure +, however the base model should be much more affordable I would speculate.
Hopefully it will be cut from a very similar cloth as their top 2 models sonically.
lpretiring
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@roxy54 
 I can understand how you feel. I at first likened them to the monster in Alien. But to me I find them compelling, and an improvement in appearance over my Tektons. lol
lpretiring
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@mijostyn, I can’t agree with you on the theory ’that the last thing you want in a room is a perfectly omni directional loudspeaker." I listened to them and (albeit a short audition) loved them.
I also have heard MBL’s several times and on some occasions thought they sounded excellent.
When available I plan on auditioning the Bayz base model quite extensively.
 Best to let my own ears guide me with careful consideration.
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