Advice about warm, gentle speakers...

I plan to hlod onto my Taylo Reference Monitors until they die or I do, whichever comes first.

It's just that folks were recommending that Aitchnu look at both Callistos and Tylers. Having compared these side by side in my system with various electronics over the past 45 days, I got good a feel for the comparison.

Aitchnu noted that he was getting some digital/treble glare. I think that I can say for sure that the Tylers will be more livable with that situation. The Callistos will put it right back at you.

I agree with you that Tylers don't sound the same regardless of electronics. I bought them as a finalist becasue they are very good speakers plus Ty is great. Each piece sounded different through the Tylers, but they were generally more comfortable sounding with brighter electronics/cables then the Callistos were. I guess that you could say the they are more forgiving of bright electronics while the Callistos might be more forgiving of darker electronics.

Each time the speakers revealed differences in the electronics feeding them to my ears, at least.

Every speaker reveals the differences between upstream components. However, warm and neutral are not the same, and yet your post would suggest that the Tylers are both. I find them to be quite warm, even softening the sound of gear that I have otherwise found to be harsh, or edgy. In my vocabulary, this translates to also being forgiving in nature. On the other hand, Dynaudio or B&W, for example, are not similarly forgiving.

I hope you did not misinterpret my post as an attack on your analysis Jerry... That definitely was not my intent. My point was that a Denon/Tyler combo may not give the results the OP is looking for, as the Tylers will reveal the character of the source electronics quite readily. The same can be said of GMAs, I am sure (and I too am a big fan of those as well). I have only heard the Callistos on a Manley Steelhead (that was a perfect match, I might add), but have no experience as to their sound differences on various electronics as I don't own them and only heard them on one system. No offense or attack was intended.

---Dave

I hope you did not misinterpret my post as an attack on your analysis Jerry... That definitely was not my intent

That was not my intent either, Dave, with respect to your post.

I find that it can be quite difficult to make recommendations to people, for precisely the reason you state in your latest post. It's close to impossible to quantify what it is that someone else is seeking, how it will behave in their system, or whether or not they would even hear it the same way that I would. Oh...what to do???

Thanks again for the additional suggestions. I had forgotten how much fun it is to scour the internet looking for details on each recommended brand and model. Kind of a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance thing: “the journey is more important than the destination”. In any event, I am looking at all the options suggested and I really appreciate the time everyone is taking—there is no way I would be able to learn about the sound qualities of these brands on my own (or even the potential sound qualities such as those discussed regarding the Tyler speakers. BTW, the Tylers are an option I would never have considered without your collective input--thanks). Given the constraints of my situation I recognize I will have to put up with a number of sonic compromises but with these suggestions I think I will be able to mine a lot of good sound from a restricted set of resources. If I can get some of these speakers in for an in home audition I will try to post my observations for others like myself that are trying to extract listenable sound from a limited home theater rig.