Headphones are just easier at this point because you don’t really have to worry about room acoustics that much. As also with a speaker setup I like to tweak the position all to often lol and end up messing it up and trying to find where I had it before. It’s a never ending cycle lol
I was a speaker guy from 1972 until 2016, and a headphone guy sporadically until 2015, and now full time. I’ve laid down lots of masking tape to mark speaker positions. And yes speakers are a lot tougher to deal with due to room issues.
My issue is that I will find a new position, really like it for a week, and then move my marker lol, and then a month later I would want to change it again just because, so I have so many markers on my floor lol. I guess I have always been both a headphone and speaker person since my entire family is into this hobby (which I probably why I got addicted at a younger age lol)
My father took me to the BSO and got a pair of Quad ESL 57’s (one of the most legendary speakers of all time) in '69 when I was 12.
Too bad I can’t play anything and my voice is worse than Bob Dylan by factor of 20x.
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Those quads are pretty sweet, hard to deny the quality of those for sure.
ESL63’s are still on my list of speakers I want to own.
I heard them back around 85 or 86, and fell instantly in love.
Now I can actually afford them I just don’t want to deal with shipping them around the country for restoration, or the fact they have limited low end, can’t play loud and are incredibly unreliable.
They don’t play really loud. 15 x 13 x 9 is a good sized room. I don’t think they are unreliable unless you over drive them. Some of the hybrid ML’s and all of the ribbon tweeter Maggies are a good deal easier, but the mids don’t quite cut it like the 63’s.