Hear, hear to both your post and Andrew's!

And, yup, the Snells I heard at Scalford unquestionably produced one of the best sounds of the show. As I commented at the time, they actually looked like a (smaller) version of my Lockwoods - and sounded in some ways rather like them, too!

Here's what I wrote about them at the time (unfortunately when clearing out my Imageshack account some of the pics have been deleted): http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...401#post419401

Quote Originally Posted by Marco
...and those Snells are probably one of the best speakers I've heard. They're quite vintage Tannoy DC-like in their musical presentation, which of course is a sound I can relate to, and they did genuine scale, vocal and instrumental texture with aplomb and had a lovely 'big-boned', effortlessly musical presentation that really made me smile!

At a push, I'd probably nominate it for the best sound I heard at the show. It really did highlight again for me that there has been little real progress made in loudspeaker technology, since the days when the truly great, genuinely innovative speakers were born, and here I include the Snells, along with Tannoys, Altecs, JBLs, Klipschs, Quads, IMFs, etc. Every time I hear speakers of that ilk, it becomes quite obvious what is wrong with 95% of modern speakers!!
Marco.