First I wanted to thank Finleyville for opening up his home to all of us. I also wanted to thank those that brought their equipment over for comparison and enjoyment.
I would like to encourage others to express their opinions about what they heard here in this post.
To my ears the room seemed a little lively and active in the 4k+ region making most of the speakers sound a brighter and slightly more forward than that they would sound normally.
The speakers were placed about 3 feet from the rear wall with the following arrangement.
From the outside in: Zaph's Seas L18 / Seas 27TBFCG, The MTM Noobsters, Clearwave Dynamic 4T.
For me: In our listening room the Zaph L18's had the best sound above 60hz, they worked perfectly in the room with a smooth sound I could listen too all day long. Frankly I was very impressed as I did not expect them to sound that good. Although I wished I could have gotten the chance to listen to them longer, from a sheer enjoyment point of view I REALLY liked the sound that they produced.
Clean, clear, and uncolored, but as expected not very solid in the lower octaves. If I may indulge in a little useless english retoric for a moment If I could sum up how these sound in one word that word would be "elegant"
I found the The MTM noobsters to be an interesting design. One thing I noticed very quickly was that they seemed to require a lot of distance for the drivers to sum properly. I wouldn't recommend these to anyone in a small room or with a listening distance under 6'. Once you are farther than 6' the drivers sound sums fairly well. I wasn't sure if there was any custom BSC in the speakers or if the front port, compared to the normal rear firing port changed the sound quality, but they did sound slightly muddy in the midbass and also compressed as if there was more information being generated by the drivers that what was intended to be heard. Given their cost I would say that they are a good value, but not my favorites. P.S. The bass overall was decent, and let me say quite good for a design this inexpensive.
Dougie085' s 4T speakers were by spec the best in the house. As it was explained to me his 4T's were slightly larger than the norm with more internal volume and a higher Q, the port was also tuned lower than the reference design. The bass response in room was excellent. For most music there was no need for a subwoofer with those towers. Sonically in room, from the lower midrange down they were awesome. During our listening we demoed a sample of music featuring a drum solo. The imaging and presence was so perfect that I repeatedly ended up turning my head half expecting a real drum kit to be in the room. Very impressive. Doug explained that they sounded a little less forward in his enviroment and after a while I came to the conclusion that the room acoustics were most likely at fault for the harder forward sound we were experiencing. Probably the best set in the room, but for me "In THAT Room" I prefered the Zaph L18s.
I would like to encourage others to express their opinions about what they heard here in this post.
To my ears the room seemed a little lively and active in the 4k+ region making most of the speakers sound a brighter and slightly more forward than that they would sound normally.
The speakers were placed about 3 feet from the rear wall with the following arrangement.
From the outside in: Zaph's Seas L18 / Seas 27TBFCG, The MTM Noobsters, Clearwave Dynamic 4T.
For me: In our listening room the Zaph L18's had the best sound above 60hz, they worked perfectly in the room with a smooth sound I could listen too all day long. Frankly I was very impressed as I did not expect them to sound that good. Although I wished I could have gotten the chance to listen to them longer, from a sheer enjoyment point of view I REALLY liked the sound that they produced.
Clean, clear, and uncolored, but as expected not very solid in the lower octaves. If I may indulge in a little useless english retoric for a moment If I could sum up how these sound in one word that word would be "elegant"
I found the The MTM noobsters to be an interesting design. One thing I noticed very quickly was that they seemed to require a lot of distance for the drivers to sum properly. I wouldn't recommend these to anyone in a small room or with a listening distance under 6'. Once you are farther than 6' the drivers sound sums fairly well. I wasn't sure if there was any custom BSC in the speakers or if the front port, compared to the normal rear firing port changed the sound quality, but they did sound slightly muddy in the midbass and also compressed as if there was more information being generated by the drivers that what was intended to be heard. Given their cost I would say that they are a good value, but not my favorites. P.S. The bass overall was decent, and let me say quite good for a design this inexpensive.
Dougie085' s 4T speakers were by spec the best in the house. As it was explained to me his 4T's were slightly larger than the norm with more internal volume and a higher Q, the port was also tuned lower than the reference design. The bass response in room was excellent. For most music there was no need for a subwoofer with those towers. Sonically in room, from the lower midrange down they were awesome. During our listening we demoed a sample of music featuring a drum solo. The imaging and presence was so perfect that I repeatedly ended up turning my head half expecting a real drum kit to be in the room. Very impressive. Doug explained that they sounded a little less forward in his enviroment and after a while I came to the conclusion that the room acoustics were most likely at fault for the harder forward sound we were experiencing. Probably the best set in the room, but for me "In THAT Room" I prefered the Zaph L18s.
I definitely don't think you're losing any detail or anything in the L18 design. I just felt that the tweeters were not quite as forwards as they should of been I suppose? In you're setup that may be a good thing though 
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