Hi guys. I found this thread this morning and been reading, enjoying and at the same time learning from all the posts starting from page 1 which I realized is almost 12 years ago already! It reminds me that the pair of Audience 42 that I am currently enjoying is already more than a decade old!
I bought the A42s second hand several months ago and are currently being driven by a Naim Nait 5i. I must say that I've never experienced home HiFi like this before. Open, clear and very punchy sound! Actually the word punchy is not enough to describe the bass. Weighty, tight and fast are the better words to use. I have another bookshelf pair - Dali Zensor 3 - which go deeper in LFs but the Dynes have more quality and physical bass coming from a much smaller enclosure. The highs are also not fatiguing. During the Christmas break I was listening to music all day and until past midnight!
I call myself now a Dynaudio fan and have now a clear speaker upgrade path for the future, which is Dynaudio all the way.