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Must confess that I've always had a bit of a soft spot for transmission line speakers - the effortless nature of them is beguiling.I haven’t had curved cabinets, but did at one time have a set of Tannoy 611’s which used the six sided cabinets with unequal lengths opposite to break up internal reflections . They did me well for a while as a smaller alternative to the IMF’s which were ‘frowned on’ in the living room , although the big TL’s were awesome .
The Orators I have were, at the time they were current, the bottom of the Wilson-Benesch range but still sound quite exceptional. The lack of internal cabinet reflections seems to help them disappear sonically, and the closeness of the drive unit axes approximates to a point source which helps integration greatly. They've been in my system since the turn of the millennium and they've returned the financial investment in many happy hours of listening.