I am gagging to try my NN50 with my TX9s, but a sporting injury has me in a sling at the moment so o messing about with speakers…. I’d also LOVE to B2B TX1s with my SCM11s……on the end of my NN50… I do think the TX1 could be quite a spectacular speaker with the NN50……
An update… Enjoying my new Falcon Gold LS3/5a s with my N50. Really entertaining and the added non etched detail is joy to enjoy. Genuinely listening to some of my older recordings and enjoying timbres in the instrumentation I never noticed before..
However stand speaker decoupling on these little marvels has been a struggle to get right. So easily they can blur, or add unnatural weight which can get bloated and lumpy, or overly forward upper mids that detract..
In the end I have found medium weight sorbothane pads between my medium weight SS60 stand top plate and LS3/5a works best. So dar provides a neutral eq, with no exaggeration. Upper mids and low bass are clear and defined with no veiling or exaggeration.
They also the speaker to move slightly when you push it.. and I suspect with these thin wall speakers that is important.
I will see if the sorbothane performance changes over time.. but so far all good.
infinity by Juru Gosh is a good test track for eq balance and timing. Horns, arpeggios, piano, and electronic percussion… all the instruments should be in balance, the horns not too shrill and forward and bass tight and clear with good pace and timing. Poor setups can have this track sounding a headache inducing mess.
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Would you be able to post a pic of your Falcons on their stands please? I’m interested in how they sit AND how they look.
sure I will take a shot later - but I reverted to a rice grain of blu-tak one each corner - just to raise the base a mm or so from the stand plate - but with out undue damping.
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Really helpful @MNIM
Thanks for taking the time to post. 
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They are the bare metal version and they look absolutely awesome. Thanks for posting they look great together.
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I think my Falcons must be wearing in nicely now..
Listening to At Folsom PrIson live album by Johnny Cash… and shut your eyes and you are listening to the masters back in the 60s… you can hear Cash moving around with respect to the Shure SM56s mic, with the tape overload softly clipping/saturating in and out.. really make it feel real. You can hear the dire acoustics of the dining room hall they were playing in with a low level concrete room reverb often audible around Cash’s voice and other voices, and a soft boom from the bass .. and the vibe and atmosphere from the prisoners interacting with Cash.. which I always enjoy
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Does he shoot a man again in reno ?
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If you like that, check out https://www.theghostofjohnnycash.com/
It’s not a commercial link so hopefully, it won’t get busted off the forum!