BrenR,
Enjoyed your amusing references to the ferret and the Canadian Alliance. Wasn't there a hilarious scene involving a ferret in either the book or the movie of "Bright Lights, Big City" ?
I really wasn't planar-bashing--over the years, I've been as susceptible to the lure of exotic speaker designs as anyone. Just wanted to point out their strengths and weaknesses. Certainly some planar speakers are capable of superb, uncolored midrange. I've heard Magnaplanars that are very good and several that were awful, and some electrostatics that also fall into both categories.
But dipoles require so much finicky postitioning, and even then they have an odd "phasey" character that seems to shift every time you move your head an inch or two. That was especially true of a pair of Martin-Logan Aerius speakers that a friend had and I've heard that a lot from electrostatics.
Regards,
