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I have B&W Nautilus 805s, but I'd like to try electrostatics as soon as I can afford a pair. I've tried ribbons, horns and transmission-line

You should pair up this question with one asking the primary type of music listened to. I'll bet you find high correlations between things like: classical and electrostats, rock and cones, etc.

I've lived happily with dynamic speakers for 25 years. However, I've recently heard the new MartinLogan line (Ascent & Odyssey) and must say I'm tempted for the first time to convert to electrostatic hybrids.

Legacy Whisper with the Legacy Extreme bass unit.

Only horns give you the real dynamics of live music—nothing else comes close. Sure they have faults, but if you don't reproduce the "life" and energy of the music and performance, the rest is just window dressing.

Planar monopolar ribbon four-way with servo-controlled dynamic woofers: the lovely Infinity Epsilon system.

80 Hz e-horns with Lambda TD15MMM (triple magnet) drivers and dynamic tweeter horns from Taiwan

My current system has all Dynamic drivers, But I have been drooling over the hybrid stuff from Martin Logan for a while now and I think a nice shiney set of Prodigies are in my future. Unless I win the lottery and get the Statements!

Does that make me a conehead, consuming massive quantities of recordings? Electrostats, ribbons, and horns haven't done it for me yet, although a friend just invited me over to hear his MartinLogan loudspeakers. We'll see.

MartinLogan Aeriusi.

Long live B&W!

There's nothing like a Dynaudio driver.

What else is there !

PLANAR

old infinity Kappa Sevens they are actually sounding better as I upgrade the cables audio majic and a new Linn Ikemi CD player have presented a much better sound image and stage so i think i'll keep 'em another decade or so. I tried the martin logan they are too fussy in set up though they present mids and highs with outstanding accuracy. I will probably buy dynamic/cones next time around

I was a confirmed Magnepan user for many years, having gone through 4 models, the last being equipped with a ribbon driver. I never though it could get better- then revel happened, and I've not looked back since.

The wood popping system is electrostatic, everything else is dynamic. It is sooo much cheaper to make a dynamic speaker good. When you have 4 seprate systems cost becomes a major issue.

Dunlavy SC-II with custom build dual subs.

Acoustat Model III, still love them after all these years!!

Magnepan Planar Magnetics don't quite fit any of your choices above. I enjoy mine and am lucky enough to have a spouse who lets me set them up properly, i.e. out in the middle of the room.

Thiel 2.3 (concentric mid/tweet, cone woofer, passive radiator)

I've always had cone speakers, but there are several hybrids I'd like to try, especially the big Martin Logans and the little Red Rose.

Kenwood (please forgive me)

I'v always had dynamic speakers in my system, they are reliable, and give good sound for the money. How ever, down the road I think I might consider a pair of Maggies, or Martin Logans, both of those sound real fast and crystaline clear, and they're making them more reliable. I haven't heard any horn speaker that I've really liked except from Avantgarde.

Lowther single-driver rear-loaded horn. I know it's pretty minimalistically extreme but the scale and dynamics are amazing. No crossover wierdness plus the most presence/microdynamics I've ever heard and with just 3W! At Home Entertainment in NY the only things that better them that I heard were Pipedreams and JMLabs Utopias—and, possibly, Quads. IMHO

The dynamic/cone path provides the best route for reproducing the entire audible sound spectrum at a reasonable cost from my listening experience.

Ok, I chose Ribbon, but I've got everything but electrostatic in the house. Some of these polls need something like an "all the above" versus an "other" option!

B&W DM 330

Pistonic motion makes me happy. Yep, get them big and little metal, plastic and wood pulp cones doing the olde InAndOut and Tony's a happy camper. I like panel speakers too, but they are just too bulky.

Seek ye the old paths . . .