Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application!

@ditusa Its worth noting that my drivers use a beryllium diaphragm (as you probably already surmised); the driver is also modified to run a field coil. As far as I'm concerned, JBL knows what they are doing with their horn structures- I've seen no reason to replace mine. The diaphragm uses a Kapton surround so doesn't act weird when you get near the cutoff frequency. As a result its fine with a 6dB/octave crossover.

I use Cabinet Speakers for my periods of listening to Blues Music. 

I spent much of my Teens and 20's in small venues  being up close and personal to Pa Speakers watching Performers on stage.

These were the days where my keen interest in audio was seeded. 

As an individual interested in audio equipment and the sound produced, I ended up with ESL Speakers., for myself these speakers types have ticked many boxes.

ESL Speakers are as a result of my 20+ Years of using them not able to create the recollection and impression that a live music venue is being mimicked.

Cabinet Speakers are the tool for the Job, I have had Cabinet Speakers periodically in use with the system for many many years. I have moved on from very coloured presentation designs and have ones with less Cabinet Influences in use now. 

I have no issues having multi speakers to be used to create the sound that delivers what is most attractive for a particular Genre of music, in my world, both Blues and Live Blues recordings are worthy of it

I could be wrong but does Tekton  not use PA type drivers in their speakers?  Hence the high sensitivity rating.

@arnold_h , Tekton has all kinds of speakers, way too many for a small company, if you ask me...hard to say if Eric Alexander's eccentricity has any patterns associated with it,  😉

@deep_333 

The culprit is largely PA electronics, imo. For example, I’ve tried Crown amps on my hifi rig and the soundstage flattening is immediate. I have also observed it when trying out Mcintosh hifi amps (not meaning to offend any Mcintosh users)...the flat wall of sound with no depth, layering and nuance. Denafrips dac --> Luxman, Schiit, Yamaha hifi amps, etc should remedy that situation...is my theory for now/will know an answer in the next month.

Not in the various circumstances I've heard them in. 

Everything from: modern tube amps (low powered 300B, to high powered push-pull), Nelson Pass class A, high powered A-B, vintage amps, etc. 

Not all of them have been in well treated rooms, but most were on the better side of home living rooms, 

Some certainly sounded better than others, but none of the gear made any appreciable difference in soundstage and imaging.