Who has heard and can comment on any of these brands??


Sound Kaos

Audio Physic 

Coherent 

Stenheim

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I heard a pair of Stenheims at AZPONA this past spring (2022) and found them to be one of my favorite rooms at the show, just behind the Magico M6 room.  The Stenheims were in a larger room, and I can't remember the model number, but they were wonderful sounding.  My show companions were in agreement with me.  Maybe this helps........

I have Coherent 10's.  They are in my virtual system posted here.  I'm not familiar with the other brands mentioned by the OP.  Coherents will be in the high efficiency camp.  Very easy to drive, outstanding clarity in the midrange, great imaging, very revealing of amps.  I've heard more extended bass and more detailed bass elsewhere but the good stuff more than makes up for it and I don't feel like bass is lacking at all. 

Audio Physics, Stenheim.

About the fabulous Stenheims, I posted this on Audiogon, so useless to repeat myself:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/speaker-recommendation-up-to-70k/post?postid=2255705#2255705

Go listen! They are really astounding.

Whilst seeking to replace my Audio Physic Yara 2's I took them to a friendly hifi store to compare them to a range of speakers most noticeably Monitor Audio's. I tried them in the main listening room against maybe 12 speakers. The Yara's sounded, to me, by far better. We went to another room listening to some others we may yet consider.  Whilst there another salesman came in and asked the owner how much the new speakers were, a customer and his wife just loved them. I did upgrade the AP Yara 2's, for another pair of AP's, the Sitara 25's. Perfect for my small dedicated music room.

Whoopy,

I like your components. I listened to the Classic 10. Your model

looks like an upgrade to those. To hear someone say they are

"Not Looking to make changes" is pretty rare. Thanks!