Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way?


OK, controversial subject but it needs asked. I'm curious for your experiences, mainly in your home, not a dealer and esp. not a show demo
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Sad to see Roy Johnson trashed on this thread as I had and loved both pairs of speaker from him, the models of which I now forget.  A couple of our fellow posters all muck up each and every thread on this forum.  Of the 20 or so speakers I have had over the past 45 years, I enjoyed them all very much.  Except the KEF LS50's, which were awful sounding in the month I had them and were hard to drive with my Plinius 175 wpc SS amp.  Go figure.  Honestly, if I hit the Lotto and moved to a home with a large living room, I'd have a pair of KEF Blades in a heartbeat.  
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A compendium of my speakers:  

List of my speakers from 1973 to 2021:

Rectilinear III Highboys (outstanding speakers!)

AR bookshelves

JBL L100 (like the cause of my hearing loss these days)

Electro-Voice Sentry 100's

Spica TC 40's and TC 50's (unparalleled imaging, but the drivers were easily overdriven to failure)

JSE Infinite Slope 3's (early Jeff Joseph's creations)

Goetz MS3 Towers (I had them for 20 years, made by a boutique designer in Atlanta)

KEF LS50 (My least-liked speakers among the bunch, shrill sonically and hard to drive)

Von Schweikert V22

Usher BE-718

Totem Hawks (huge LF response)

SVS Black Towers 

Klipsch Cornwalls (modded to Cornscala's)

Tyler Acoustic's Linbrooks (fantastic speakers, but they completely overloaded my smallish room)

Joseph Audio RM25XL ( should have never sold these)

Dynaco A10, A 25, A35  (when recapped, a pure vintage sound with a great midrange)

KLH Model 5, 6, 21 and 28? (the Model 5 speakers are truly legendary when recapped)

Blumenstein Orca's

Green Mountain Audio Rio and Eos HX

GR Research LGK

ELAC Debut B6 

Dali Zensor 1 and 3's (both outstanding monitors)

Linkwitz Lxmini's  (if you have never heard them, you ought to.  However with the need of a 4-channel amp, they rendered my cadre of 2-channel amps unusable)

Spatial Audio M4 Triode Masters (tremendous speakers, not at all fussy about placement)

Revel M22 

Gallo Strada’s (wonderful little orbs of musicality in my bedroom system)

Buchardt S400 ( unbelievably revealing monitors)