The remainder of the bandwidth explains quickly. From the upper-bass/lower-mid transition to the high treble, it's fairly neutral and only the presence region of the upper-mid/lower-treble range serves up a small 'politeness dip' like the Klangheim so unlike the monitor-esque Magico A5 which is twice as expensive but linear in this range. The small dip doesn't skew the vocal-range balance. Male and female voices from Cohen to Björk sound as they should so neither chesty nor squeakily dry-cleaned but balanced. The slightly milder presence range simply ensures that hard attacks by piano, electric guitars or rimshots are a touch softer and thin mediocre recordings from the 80-90 feel less edgy so more enjoyable without wearing blatant makeup. A religious recording engineer could shake his head but in our home hifi sector, such a tuning is popular because it serves long-term listenability for pleasure not vivisection. We now enter resolution with an exclamation mark because one of the X2.6's core strengths is never getting boring. While other speakers with a friendly presence tuning can sometimes come 
across as too polite for lack of resolution—translation: boring/uninspiring—the X2.6 was the exact opposite. Not just but also because of the proprietary thin-film tweeter, it dished out such a cornucopia of detail and rendered overtones so accurately as to have an uncannily positive impact on the overall sound. Leonard Cohen for example didn't just 'hum' at me in a darkly sonorous way but bared his rough brittle textures to convey that sense of 'realism' we audiophiles chase with albums like Dear Heather. It was a similar thing with the cool song "Party Girl" by Michelle Gurevich which I recently discovered by chance on the compilation Agnes Obel: Late Night Tales. It felt super intimate and utterly appropriate for this minimalist melancholy number. Of course not just voices benefitted from Raidho's first-rate resolution. So did instruments. The more overtones there are, the more fascinating tone modulations and timbres get. How the glockenspiel in Björk's "Frosti" on her Vespertine album shimmered in such finely fanned-out manner was simply fantastic. It was no coincidence that this reminded me of the Betonart Audio Arrivato V2 at around €16'000 because the heavy German loudspeaker also has a very well-integrated planar tweeter, in its case a true aluminium ribbon.
As is often the case with very high-resolution speakers, microdynamics and the X2.6 were on most excellent terms. For macro dynamics, we must parse a bit. On the one hand, it was amazing what the short Raidho could do for a single instrument, be it piano, upright or drums when the slightly fun-oriented bassment tuning became particularly obvious. You won't readily believe that such impulses are feasible from these drivers though the price range certainly asks for it. On the other hand, some things remain out of reach when multiple aspects intersect so a large room + high SPL + dense instrumentation + high recorded dynamic range. To portray grand classical music or complex dense electronica with plenty of sub bass at almost "live" levels gets difficult for the X2.6. Such demands need more cone surface and cubic inches. So compromises are required. Either lower your SPL or accept dynamic compression. If you want both and primarily listen to this type music, this isn't quite the right speaker for you. It shines more strongly elsewhere. Enter the second core strength: soundstaging. Here the Raidho is a shameless seducer. First off, you can set it up a little wider than usual. Centre fill won't collapse but remain stable. This can create a wonderfully wide panorama into which the speakers completely vanish. This becomes less of a window onto the music through which we listen but more of an open field peopled by musicians; and one of considerable depth I might add. This depth per se isn't unusual for a speaker in this league but the nice thing here was casting layers not merely behind the speaker but also a step forward without any 'zoom' to cancel front/back expansion. The icing on the cake of this free, cavernous and involving staging was somewhat more lavish scaling of individual images which felt both accurate and round, organic and physical – in other words, natural and tangible.
It's really amazing when everything comes together like on "Almost like the blues" where I obviously binged on Cohen again. The bass swung through the room with a rich spring, the piano sparkled, the shaker on the left traced in minute detail, Leonard's voice stood before me big, powerful yet fragile. it's as though the Raidho were wiping away the entire hifi altar in front of me with one grand gesture because they needed the space for the music. Yes, this little Dane really has a first-class grip on spatial liberation. Even if the X2.6 doesn't look it at first glance, it's a fairly unusual speaker for several reasons. For its price it's quite compact and easily integrates into normal living environments. But to conclude that it's primarily suitable for smaller rooms would be wrong. I'd say the fun starts at 20m² and can scale up because the X2.6 has fairly rich LF which can be given room to develop freely. This bass range can adjust in fine steps to suit our own taste so most people should easily hit their tonal sweet spot. The two greatest strengths of the Raidho X2.6 are fantastic resolution in the mid/high ranges to which the continuously refined planarmagnetic tweeter contributes a great deal; and completely out-of-the-box soundstaging with great projection and depth. Garnish with a little setup luv and musicians will move about your room jamming as though present. This expanse and billowiness of the virtual venue comes across incredibly impressive and draws one into the tunes. The X2.6 is less suitable for heavy party rotation and listeners chasing large dynamic swings with densely orchestrated music at high SPL. Physics won't be tricked. Anyone who demands berserker mode needs larger speakers. But everyone else who can live within the X2.6's conceptual constraints will get a very seductive sound from this Raidho indeed.
Psych profile for the Raidho X2.6…
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