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What does the term "Speed" mean in a speaker?
+1  transient response is a proper technical term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_response "fast" is slang. 
Need Perfect Speakers for Acoustically Hostile Placement
Look for a pair of used Realistic Minimus 7s. 
What does the term "Speed" mean in a speaker?
Fast with a speaker for me refers to low distortion resulting from minimal time lag due to inertia between signal and movement of the transducers as would be expected with a good combo of stronger magnets, precision machining and assembly of parts... 
Abbey Road 50th Anniversary
Bass "bloat" is usually a result of room acoustics and/or interactions with the floor or furniture speakers rest on in some cases. Very likely if heard with the small ls50s. 
KEF-LS50 with REL T-Zero? Anyone?
Definitely use a sub with the ls50s in any room. I would only use ls50s for serious listening in small to moderate size rooms. They are small and as a result have limitations but they do what they do very well. Adding and properly integrating a su... 
I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage
" An important part of the puzzle is every time you add/change/delete/upgrade room treatments you must then reestablish ideal speaker locations. Sorry to be the bearer of bad gnus."No you don’t have to  Debbie Downer, if you just do it right. But ... 
I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage
Well you may hate to but you just did.From a technical perspective, streaming is a much more robust process than reading data of an optical disk (CD) in real time. All my CDs get ripped first right up front then streamed. Even off my smart phone i... 
Something For The Fuse Guys ...
Being a written forum loaded with evidence, I’d leave it to the humble reader to determine where ignorance may lie. 
I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage
The other thing to consider is how big of a sweet spot or zone do you need for that sound stage and imaging? Choices are much more limited for that. 
Something For The Fuse Guys ...
Ignorance is bliss. 
How many amps do you own?
I just picked up 4 new ones a couple weeks back. Two in each Vanatoo Transparent One Encore speaker. 
Something For The Fuse Guys ...
Everyone needs something to make them feel special.  For some it’s harping on and on about fuses being directional.    
Abbey Road 50th Anniversary
By no means does this tell the whole story regarding sound quality, but here are some published metrics on dynamics of teh various Beatles releases that might be of interest. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=beatles&album=  
Abbey Road 50th Anniversary
Don't know the kickdrum answer. I will have to do some revisiting of various versions.    No clue which is best.   I also enjoyed the 50th anniversary White Album, have only heard it via Spotify, but the differences from all my prior releases were... 
Robert Hunter unfortunately has died
Take Robert Hunter's lyrics out of the Grateful Dead's success story and it would be very interesting to see how things would have turned out.