Looking for former Hales System 2 owners feedback

What a great thread Gdodson...:0)

I owned the Hales system 2 sigs for about 13 years. They were a great speaker for their time. I now own SF Guarneri Hommage; which in my small room is a far more resolving and accurate speaker. The G's are way superior in their ability to portray high freq sounds and are much more realistic in their overall portrayal of timbre. Particularly noticeable, is their ability to disappear and throw a much larger image than I could get from the Hales. Frankly, once I inserted the G's, it was like looking through a magnifying glass at the musicians. Everything was far more realistic and real sounding!
IMHO the Hales were weak in the high-end reproduction of air and realistic timbre. They were good at mid-bass and their midrange was also good. The G's are superior in all areas to my old Hales, amazingly and IMHO I feel the SF's are in a different league.

Brf and Jaybo, what did you replace your Hales with?
I do agree that today the speakers would cost a lot more, although I feel that the MB Quart tweet was even in its day, somewhat of a let-down. I personally never looked back once I replaced my Hales with the SF's. The Hales always seemed to me to be poor in the highs and with the SF's that was really confirmed. I never understood why Paul
picked that tweet when he went with very good drivers for the mids and of course nothing really for the bass. If the Sig's had a great tweet, Paul had several options available at that time, I probably would still own them today.