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I have a question for Bob, Bobby and jbcortes

I have been reading this and it seems that Bob - you like several different speakers, Bobby is a manufacturer so you obviously have a preference in sound are trying to get at what you believe is "the best solution" and jb you like different speakers but you believe them to be in a similar sonic landscape (whatever that means - I would surmise a similar signature the way that I feel most multiple stacked slim lines sound alike to me that follow the NRC camp of design) Ala a Paradigm 100 is similar to what Energy puts out).

My question is do you guys like speakers from totally different camps. I have looked over some of my favorite loudspeakers and I have liked stuff from complete opposite ends of the spectrum from Panels to horns to transmission lines to dual concentric (umm Tannoy if I got the dsign name wrong) to undamped boxes from Audio Note with their "out-there" theories. (as you all know this is my preference) but I still like these others and understand why people love them.

I'd be interested to know what speakers sound similar to a current Merlin or what camp one would put them into if possible and what would be viewed as a polar opposite.

I would like to hear Merlin and JMR -- I am in Korea -- any representation here. Harbeth seems to do well here as do some smaller brands not generally represented well in BC Canada like ProAc, Tannoy, Ruark etc.

Any speaker that is designed with tubes in mind is probably more right than wrong in my books even if they're not my first choice. If Merlin is doing that then they would probably be something I would like.

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