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The SHL5plus XD may, as Shaw said, be tuned to modern tastes interested in a wider range of music, but I found it less than ideal for rock. It’s hard to explain. They worked extremely well with electronic music (like Fuse, the new album by Everything But the Girl) and the rowdier tracks listed in my listening notes above. They’re tailor-made for well-recorded classical with its grandeur, spaciousness, and separation, and I very much enjoyed jazz through these Harbeths, especially female vocals. But when I played anything that required major boogie factor—ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon—I found I wasn’t satisfied. They seemed to lack the drive needed to fill my small room with convincing rebel sounds

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