Advent vs. HPM 100

I had to sell my beautiful pair. Those tweeters simply exhausted me after 5 minutes, same as my modded JBL L100T's. Both are now gone.
 
I guess I'm spoiled with my KLH 5's and 6's. I recently auditioned a pair of HPM 100's listed on the local CL. I brought my own music. I decided to pass. They didn't sound bad. Just too forward and would have been difficult to listen to for lengthy periods. I do think the HPM's would make a perfect set of front speakers in an HT setup.
 
HPM 100 ok, but for me, there is one test that makes the decision for me. Can it reproduce a human voice I listen to every day, on and off the microphone? The Advent Loudspeaker passes that test every time. This voice test is a recording of an announcer who's voice I know on and off microphones. Advent colors that voice the least (and every Henry Kloss design I ever heard did)
 
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