I have not read through the whole thread but I am highly impressed with how my new Magnepan LRS+ sound. I have other formats and systems but I am primarily using a streaming system because I have found it works well and it is easy to listen to all sorts of music from the couch. I’m saying that I have become lazy and I don’t want to have to get up and turn the record over or switch to a different reel or other device. I pay a small amount for the service and it works flawlessly. Oh yea I have to say that the LRS + is spectacular and I am still looking forward to getting a set of Magnariser stands which are supposed to have a extra layer of resolution ( which I think will make it like a musical instrument is playing in front of me. So if you have a high current amplifier and the room for a pr I would recommend it as a replacement for your speakers.
Downsizing for Blade 2 and hunting for smaller floor standers
I live in apartments and love small , tall, thin, powerful speakers. I went from Dynaudio C2 to Blade 2 and am in absolute love with it. However, this whole thin and tall thing has scratched a new itch of me and I kept wanting to go leaner and smaller. I have thought about Beolab 28 which seems to be going for the extreme and also maybe the LS60, which feels like a downgrade in sound quality. So I wonder if there is something else I should consider to make my speaker smaller without significantly compromise full range sound quality.