lots of comments already
my 2 cents
-- wharfdale lintons are not resolving (nor engaging) at all... good for background music in my book, that is about it, not suitable for intent listening
-- better kefs proacs (one of my faves) joseph audio can be very good very resolving very engaging traditional box speakers, spendors are quite iffy, they can be all over the map, some expensive recent ones have sounded downright BAD to my ear
-- atcs and b&w and focals can be very very good or can be very very bad -- very finicky and hard to match and synergize unless you are quite experienced or have a damn good dealer... not for the faint of heart
-- once you do maggies right (proper setup, proper amps, subs) it is VERY hard to go back to a box speaker -- they are just more like the real thing, especially in a medium to large room
-- i have had quite bad luck with dynamic open baffle type speakers... tried several (spatials, lil songs, pure audios...) in every case i felt they sounded downright poor, yes they are dynamic and open but there are unseemly distortion artifacts that really bothered me, they don't image right -- i tried and tried and tried and they never sounded remotely correct
your mileage may vary

