Well, my favourite was the TAD. In too small rooms the high frequencies will cut off your ears, but with the correct placement in a good room there is no problem with that at all.
My personal lineup was: TAD > JMlab + Thiel > Sonus Faber > Audio Physic > Wilson.
The positioning of the TADs was also done very quick: Andrew Jones, the engineer of the model one (a VERY nice person) and two of us just tried 2 or 3 positions and then went over to just listening to music while turning the volume up and up. BOOM, great. Fast and explosive bass. Zero compression until we blew up one of the Woofers
Hell, THAT was loud. We were just like little kids with a new toy. For the kind of room, the sound was just great. Luckily Andrew managed it to get a replacement speaker for
his babies very quick.
The Sonus Faber were also very good, but i guess they suffered most from the poor room. The sound was less dynamic, but very creamy and warm. I would call it nice... Actually I really do not know if I would want that in my room...
But if someone would force me to take one of the last three speakers i would prefer the SF for sure
Oh and one thing I have to add. These are my very personal opinions on these speakers. I am not a writer for these magazines, I just know some of the guys and the two HighEnd shows I did with them were just some kind of holiday work. In earlier days I worked there from time to time to pack and unpack the devices tested by the magazines. I also took part in some of the tests, but never wrote one or judged over a thing... I love that stuff too much for making it my profession. It was THE place to listen to the contrasts I mentioned above.
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