I had the Essence and Cornwall and the Essence will give you every tiny detail will remaining phase coherent. The speaker I eventually settled on was the Zu Def because it has 95% of the detail of the Essence with a ton more dynamics. The Cornwall was a great speaker 20 years ago but if you listen to it next to the Zu Omen Def the Cornwall sounds broken. Without phase coherency your system will always lack emotion and truthfully it is the emotion that a speaker portrays that separates a great speaker from the pretenders. My goal is the Zu Definition Mk4.
Zu Audio Essence vs Klipsch Cornwall
I'm currently running Cornwall's with a Cayin A88-t a thorens TD-125 mk2 with an SME arm and shure cart. I've been looking at trying Zu products for awhile but just don't know if they would be a better choice than the Cornwalls. I listen to mainly Hard rock and metal.I really like the old Klipsch speakers but I would like something thats better from top to bottom at lower volumes.