Anyone understand WHY -on average - the high efficiency models grab the emotions, while so many lower-efficiency models sound like a check list of the audiophile vocabulary?
Obviously this is a subjective hobby. If you don't find this is the case, please stay out of the thread.
I think there is something to this. It is a generalization, which occasions all of the usual caveats, but I think it is relatively easier to get dynamics and fast "rise time" out of a higher sensitivity speaker, properly driven, than a lower sensitivity speaker.
Maybe it is just that it is easier to achieve proper amplifier drive with a high sensitivity speaker than it is with a lower sensitivity speaker.