"the L1230s are in my friend's possession and I left him with the belief that his TW3s sounded good."
So - you did not buy either of them??
So - you did not buy either of them??
With all due respect owing the individual's preferences for certain sounds, I've never really understood the TW philosophy. A 20 hz wavelength is slightly over 52 feet. A 375 hz wavelength is about three feet. To avoid phase cancellation with sounds bouncing off walls seems to be an impossible task when human singing spans three octaves or more on a non-linear frequency domain. There would be no way to guarantee with multiple point sources of the same frequency that you could ever hope to keep the phase alignment coherent. For sounds over 5000 hz, I might give in to the opinion that phase coherence isn't that big a deal. I heard a pair of DCM TW 3s against a worn out pair of L1230s in the same room, with and without sub support. I was there to buy the L1230s. He was so excited to play the TW3s for me that he delayed the deal until I heard them. Bottom line - the L1230s are in my friend's possession and I left him with the belief that his TW3s sounded good.