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Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar)

Anyone care to give their opinion on what dynamic speaker has the most detailed/revealing midrange? Not including electrostatics or planar speakers. Approximately between the frequencies of 400Hz to 3kHz. Also, just to clarify what I mean by detail: when there is a musical passage that entails many different layers of instruments, the speakers' ability to separate all the elements so all the instruments are heard clearly and nothing is obscured. Also the ability to retrieve every last bit of information on a recording, such as random sounds in the studio, distortion in recordings and reverb tails.

As far as price goes... 2 categories... below $12,000 USD (new) and any price range. Thanks.
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mortsnets
42 posts
 
Audience Clairaudient The One or 1+1 V2+
http://audience-av.com/loudspeakers/
helomech
1,489 posts
 
Stirling Broadcast LS3/6 - reference level midrange by any standard. Doesn't get any better and they're only $5500/pair.
mortsnets
42 posts
 
Anything by Tonian Labs
http://www.tonianlabs.com/

Legacy Audio Calibre
https://legacyaudio.com/products/view/calibre/

Teresonic Magus
http://teresonic.com/magus/

jhellow
3 posts
 
+2 on the ATC midrange domes.  I recently recommissioned a pair of ProAc EBSs that use the 3” ATC dome midrange and the midrange on these speakers is as superlative as any I have heard.
mikapen
31 posts
 
First-order crossovers is a good start. (Less phase shift.) Dynaudio does a nice job with their midrange drivers, and use first-order.

Another thing that drew me to Dyns is their dynamic sound at low levels. You don't need to crank them up to hear the music, although they don't induce Listener Fatigue at 85 - 95 dB. 
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