Hey Z and Kew just curious what is your top five speakers you've heard thus far?
I'm glad that you didn't ask me to rank them because that is very difficult among speakers that have such good quality sound!
Focal Solo6 Be, Focal Twin6 Be, and Focal Electra 1028 Be (I am grouping these as one because they essentially have the same sound character to the extent that I have heard them).
Philharmonic Audio Phil3/BMR
Martin Logan Vista (electrostatic)
Canton Ventos
I will stop with those "four" because there is a bigger gap before the next one down.
I have also heard and been impressed by current TOTL models of Klipsch, Wilson Audio, higher level ML e'stats, Vandersteen. I'm sure there are others, but just hearing them in a store display (which is at least 20 minutes from my home), I cannot say that they are better or worse, only that they were very good! Logic would dictate that some of these are likely better than what I have at home, but I do not expect to hear the difference unless they are in the same room at the same time. That is one reason that I am content with the speakers I have!
I am still waiting for that blow-me-away-sounds-like-the-real-thing experience. I have to wonder if the JBL M2 might get me there, but at $20,000/pr I'm not sure it is in my interest to find out!
That said, I really enjoy setting up a speaker like the TFE100 (knowing that I paid less than $250 for it) and living with it for a couple of months just cause I am weird that way!