Considering the BMR Philharmonic Monitor speakers

Stereophile gives them a terrific review in this months issue. One of my friends has a larger pair of Philharmonics and they are amazing, Dennis has been designing crossovers and speakers for years ignore the garage guy comments obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Ignore the negative comments about Philharmonic, they excellent speakers for not much money. Dennis Murphy has been designing speakers and crossovers for over 20 years, consulting and for Salk Sound and Philharmonic.

Have the BMR monitors for a few weeks and consider them outstanding. They replaced a pair of KEF 103.3 speakers I've had for over 30 years. They are on low wood platform / stools, Has to look acceptable to the wife as well.

Put on a set of Isoacoustics Iso-pucks that don't have to be threaded into the speakers. Amp is a Hafler XL-280 and drives the BMR's without issue (except it's old tech). 

BMR Monitor and Towers w/ ribbons are/were great.  Not sure what the AMT's will do, but I never liked them as much as ribbons in other use cases.

I bought the BMR Towers a month or so ago used and am loving them. I second everything @simonmoon wrote. I was having a bit of issue with some high end harshness that was more of the amp than the speakers and I seemed to have tamed it with copper speaker cables from Duelund.