Good stuff, Erin. I loved these speakers, but maybe they were friendlier to the kind of music I like than the stuff you like, or maybe I just missed some attributes that you picked up on. The vertical dispersion is a bit odd, and the optimal listening angle on the vertical axis looks to be more like -10 rather than zero. I wasn't able to listen at zero since my seating places me too low; the tweeter is kind of high. I suspect that those changes make less of a difference the further back the listener is from the speaker.