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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More Fyne dealers popping up everyday. Jim Smith of Get Better Sound has been a Tannoy fan and for years and had Canterbury speakers ($30k). He would also use Joseph Audio Perspectives ($18k); what I heard when I was in his detached, state of the art music room for one of his RoomPlay Reference sessions.

BTW, anyone that can afford to do so should experience one of Jim’s sessions. It was a game changer for me. The cost is very reasonable. The main expense is getting to Cummings, GA. Make it a short vacation and also visit The Big House (Allman Brothers museum in Macon) and spend a few days in Savannah, now one of our favorite cites in the US. Sorry to go a little off topic.

Anyway Jim heard Fyne speakers and ended up replacing his Tannoys with Fyne F703 speakers ($12k) and I believe this is his new reference.

Anyone interested in an upper end Tannoy product should go out of their way to audition Fyne F700 or F1 series speakers depending on budget.
I sure love that soft dome in my ATC SCM100ASLT speakers. I look forward to the results of your fun experiment.