Speaker upgrade...

I agree the B&W is not a good option at all too much bright and "polite" .

One thing to consider is that its hard to listen to speakers that are not time and phase correct like the speakers you have now.

" One thing to consider is that its hard to listen to speakers that are not time and phase correct like the speakers you have now."

This is very clearly, it must be said, part of the problem when listeners do not use properties to evaluate music reproduction systems, as has already been proven to the many listeners who have heard Tru-Fi. They focus on one or two of what they think are properties of music reproduction systems but don't take all of them into account or even more likely have misidentified the properties of music reproduction systems in the first place.

This has been proven many times in shootouts demonstrating the superiority of Tru-Fi in  music reproduction systems that account for all of the properties of music reproduction systems and all listeners have found this to be true.

Those who do not use Tru-Fi in their music reproduction systems will never be happy with their sound because of the distortion. Yes many listeners actually like distortion in their  music reproduction systems and what they do is keep chnanging the types and amount of the distortion in search of sound that will make them happy. It is only when they hear Tru-Fi in a shootout that they realize the distortion they thought they liked only concealed the music in their music reproduction system and when this has been shown every listener realizes the superiority of Tru-Fi  music reproduction systems.

Those who do not recognize Tru-Fi are like little children who think they learn nothing in school. It is only using shootouts with Tru-Fi  music reproduction systems that all of the properties of every component in the music reproduction system can be demonstrated to these little children. So you can change your speaker's amplifier's preamplifier's room treatment's cable's DAC's but without Tru-FI you will never achieve real audio you will always be changing your equipment and wasting your money because that is what the corrupt music reproduction system  industry wants you to do for their profits only.

The HC version of the Radian means High Current, requiring a high current amp like the Spectral that they were designed with.

After hearing them at a top dealer in a couple of ~1hr. demos, I fell in love and eventually bought them along with Spectral & MIT gear all made to fit each other, similar to the famous "2C3D" system reviewed in Stereophile. At home in a professionally setup room, this rig bored me so much I couldn't wait to replace it with something less detailed but more rhythmic and musical. Moving to Quad ESL63s and Cary tube amps was probably an overreaction in the opposite direction, but the latter pair kept me smiling in the listening room far more than the Radians did. Cheers,
Spencer