I think I fall into camp 2 but I have a "big American rig" in addition to a small tubey British rig, so maybe I'm somewhere in between or in a fourth category. Over the 40 years I've been listening to music and choosing equipment, I have always ended up with British made speakers, they are by far my favorite. Started with B&W, went on to Spendor (BC-3's), and now have ProAc (1SC and D15). I just love the ProAc sound, it suits my tastes perfectly, and the speakers respond so well to tubes (a restored Dyna 70 and a pair of the reissued Quad II Classic monoblocks). My "big American rig" has Genesis 500 speakers though, American designed and made, with a ribbon tweeter and about 6 other drivers and servo-controlled woofers. They too sound perfect with tubes--ARC VT100 Mk III, a more modern tube sound than the Quad monoblocks and Dynaco 70 provide. My front end components are Linn and Ayre, and of course SB3's. I can't tell the difference between my Apple lossless music on the SB3's (through DACs) and the Ayre and Linn CD players. I can tell the difference when I play vinyl on my LP-12, however. Nothing sounds like vinyl, except maybe reel to reel tapes.
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