Are two way speakers essentially flawed?

flm09

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I've owned AN-E's for several years and, like many speakers, they are a series of compromises and only you can decide if you like the compromises the designer made. The AN-Es are unusual in that they are corner loaded so they have low extension for their size but, and I don't know if this is a direct consequence, have mediocre imaging and soundstage depth.

One of the main reasons people own AN-E is that it is a relatively compact, non-horn, passive speaker with a full-range frequency response that works well with SET amplification. There are others, but not many.

Here is how someone rated the different attributes of the model I believe you mentioned you ordered in another thread so you can see where its strengths and weaknesses may lie:
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/my-informal-speaker-reviews.935612/page-3#post-23345148

Ok thanks! Im not too worried about soundstage depth and imaging which has to do more with speaker positioning and room acoustics. I have Klipsch and with my 300b amp i have depth and layering with good dimensionality. I'm more concerned with timbre/tone and musical coherence and life like dynamics.
 

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