Any "perfectionist" loudspeaker is a difficult thing to evaluate, and we think that The Stereophile has gone at it very well on balance. But a few very important factors are worth talking about.
There is only one subjective disagreement we have: on the elusive subject of clarity" or "transparency." We certainly agree that, in a direct comparison between the Model Twelve and the Model Nine electrostatic, the former sounds a bit "veiled." We think it sounds less so, however, than any other moving-coil loudspeaker made, with the possible exception of our own…