Hearing a lot more buzz about panel speakers lately. I had pair of Martin Logan SL3. Set up biamp w right tubes. They really do have advantages over box speakers.

Macintosh & Sonus Faber landed in the GARBAGE

Heard my first set of BC150’s the other day. Bermester speakers are a delight. For as big of a cabinet as they appear, they instantly “disappear” once any signal is put through them. Whatever you could possibly expect from a speaker, they will check every box. I’m still moved from the listening session. I mean here I am searching Bermester videos on you tube.. 😂

Year ago, I owned a pair of Sound Labs which I liked although the bass frequencies were somewhat lacking. I have not kept up with Dr. Roger West but I wonder how you compare them to the Popori Speakers?

Awesome video!! Very cool that you were able to crash that demo session with TAS! Thanks for sharing!

Sorry but there's more to cables than looks and aesthetics, there not even occ copper ?

I’m happy with their power cables. They are working very well with D’Agostino Momentum XVX amplifiers. They are performing equally or better than Transparent Opus …🤷🏻‍♂️

Well thats Bose fucked....my bad😂

Do they make your house smell nice?

So, I am biased. I have a pair of these. Ken personally installed them a few weeks back. As a long-time audio nut I can confirm every positive note mentioned in the comments. These are simply spectacular. I am running them with Airtight monos and pre-amp with streaming through a Linn DAC. The amount of bass these produce is astounding. It really doesn't seem possible. Plus, the bass is as clean and as tight as anything I have heard. It is really a marvel. There is nothing shrill or fatiguing about these and they cast a massive soundstage. On well recorded material they will change your definition of high fidelity. I have owned everything from Vandersteen to Linn to Harbeth and Magnepan. Big, small, you name it. These are end-game.

GM ☕️🍩 As an old school audiophile..and as an Apogee Scintilla speaker owner from back in the day ..I say HUZZAH 🙌 🎉

Kubala Sosna: Price: ASK......

I guess time will tell whether or not it is a good thing. Will McIntosh and Sonus Faber quality drop as Bose accountants push to maximise profit over quality.

Okay ... I'm gonna be a "naysayer".... Have you ever heard of "mid field cancellation"? This is a psychoacoustic function locked to the size and position of your head. When you are dead center of an acoustic image the timing difference of the speakers to your left and right ears causes an out of phase condition which causes a dip in response at about 2khz. Moving your head just a couple of inches will cause a clearly noticeable shift in tonality. About 2 inches off centre, pink noise will brighten very noticeably. Now look how those speakers are positioned ... with the spikes you are dead center of the image, so you get the cancellation, the ones with the fancy rubber feet will place you a few inches off center where you do not get the mid field cancellation effect... so they will sound a bit brighter, which is exactly what I heard when you played the pink noise. You were hornswaggled by a clever trick in speaker positioning. Had they placed those speakers so the pads were either on the inside pair or the outside pair, you would have remained dead center in the image and it's unlikely you would have heard any difference at all. See this video for a clear example of the effect ... kzbin.info/www/bejne/imnFnnSJpbqYnpIsi=oeoW-_HL8X20CkFJ

I don't think it bodes well for those companies but none of them are on my short list to purchase..so I'm not overly concerned. Like you said, we have to many better options from Italy, US, and other countries to worry about what the big box brands are doing.

The quality of the recorded sounds 2:54 is out of this world And the speakers deliver it quite spectacularly After that quality hearing a processed pop song leaves me puzzled Why music is so processed these days Like food There is a need of clean quality sounds Thank you very much for the excellent coverage

McIntosh will become cheap commercial crap like Bose

Ask a McIntosh owner "How much horsepower is your Corvette in the driveaway? and he'll call his Mechanic. It's just land grab to boost the BOSE brand to more mainstream. Fremer will show their equipment, but NEVER speaks with McIntosh at shows (Neither do you. Thank you) I watch both of your coverage videos to see and hear Artisan brands.

Those Monitor Audios sounded great....I've had my eye on the Silver 500's for a while this has swayed me.

For me, very good.

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Has anyone ever heard of Tekton?

I really love Unison Research. I had the first version of their Unico back when it first came out, and I really loved it. Great match with all of the speakers I had at the time.

@AudiophileJunkie Jason, thank you for the excellent show coverage and the insights into the vendors, brands, people, and products...and not just the extreme high-end, but at every budget level as well. IMO, it's really important to maintain accessibility to good quality entry-level products and mid-tier products in order to draw in the younger generation of HiFi enthusiasts to the hobby and the enjoyment of music. I also appreciate your acceptance and realization of the immense power and precise control/tuning that can be achieved through the use of active crossovers via DSP. I've been a musician (primarily a saxophonist & drummer/percussionist) and HiFi enthusiast since the mid-1980s. And from the mid-1990s to this day I have incorporated the use of active DSP in designing & building DIY loudspeaker systems for both my home recording studio and home 2-channel systems, as well as high end car audio systems, for which good sound quality would be IMPOSSIBLE to achieve without multi-channel DSP. Over the years I've had the opportunity to use just about every high-end TOTL drive unit/transducer in my various DIY systems, including Accuton, Scanspeak Revelator & Illuminator, SEAS Prestige, Ciare, BMS, Purifi, BlieSMa beryllium, Focal Utopia, Mundorf AMT, B&G planars, RAAL ribbons, Dynaudio Esotar2, Acoustic Elegance, SB Acoustics Satori & Textreme, MicroPrecision, Hiquphon, Audio Technology C-Quenze, Fostex, JBL, ATC, etc... Pro audio/live club/concert venue/arena/concert hall FOH Engineers have been using active DSP for the loudspeaker systems and "room correction" since its first inception, as they understand the true power and control that is only achieved through these systems. In the early days I began using multi-channel pro audio processors such as the RANE RPM-88, dbx Driverack 480, etc. Even the old and cheap ~$300 Behringer DCX2496 UltraDrive Pro and DEQ2496 UtraCurve Pro DSP and Analyzer rackmount units that are still sold today can provide better sound quality in comparison to the majority of passive crossover designs via their fully adjustable active crossovers, digital delay/time alignment, and PEQ (when properly set up), as compared to the much more limited control you have when using passive crossover components. Like everything else in audio, these DSP "Loudspeaker Management" systems have improved exponentially over the years, but generally only studio and live sound/FOH engineers utilize them because 95% of the HiFi & "audiophile" community are simply unaware and ill-informed. Active Crossover Networks do not have passive inductors, capacitors, resistors, and other components that can oversaturate and dynamically compress the audio signal, and/or change properties/values over time, as well as waste power through dissipated heat. With active crossover networks, the power from your amplifiers can be optimized for each individual driver for maximum performance within its passband without wasted power, clipping distortion, etc. I'm not saying that ALL passive crossovers are "bad" or inferior, especially if they are well-designed and use high quality components. The Swiss made PSI Audio Studio Monitors are good evidence of this. But it is exponentially easier to design, control, and divide the audio signal in a crossover network with much more precision and without signal degradation when using active DSP crossover filter networks, time alignment, and PEQ. The only real circumstance where SOME active DSP loudspeakers are not ideal is when monitoring real-time studio tracking sessions (recording & monitoring the individual instruments or a full band in a studio) where the latency/signal delay due to the DSP can be off-putting, akin to watching a video or movie when the sound is out-of-sync with the picture. However, the modern CPUs and DSP chips that are currently in use have such a small amount of latency or delay that this is for all intents and purposes imperceptible. But this is one reason why the lead engineer at PSI Audio has continued to design and build their studio monitors with high-quality passive crossover networks. PSI Audio does, however, use Active DSP in some of their products, and I would HIGHLY recommend looking into and using their active AVAA bass trap devices, which are much more efficient and precisely "tunable" to the particular modal bass issues that typical listening rooms will exhibit below the Schroeder Frequency. These active, "tune-able" bass traps are MUCH more effective and exponentially smaller than what you can achieve through the use of typical passive bass traps that will require a very large surface area and volume to be effective and still may not target the specific offensive frequencies. The improvement in bass detail, speed, dynamics, and articulation are impressive when the AVAA are properly implemented! I apologize for the long-winded comment, but some things just cannot be described or explained in proper detail in just a few short words.

I absolutely LOVE the fact that Ruark has started producing passive speakers again. Those little guys are excellent. (and that all-in-one unit is, too).

Bose has poor customer service, Warranties are not available. Let's just not consider these products anymore. The dealers that have these Macintosh and Sonus Faber need to walk away.

How's the bass?

My purchase comes down to sound, quality, and price. It doesn't matter who owns the company or how big or small.

Well said!

This is great for both companies.

Amazing difference! Rich is my fav audio geek!

Hey Jason. I’m with you on this matter. Time will tell the direction here. As you mentioned many small owned business to look at and consider.

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Very clear difference. Not sure I actually liked it, but that's the problem with KZbin videos - you can prove that something is different, but you cannot prove you'll like it. Everyone legitimately interested will need to demo in real life.

What about the Philharmonic room???

The baby magnepans in that room are not 7500, they are 700. The whole room, all in (4 pr of those speaker, curved center, two perlisten subs) and primare receiver was under 25k

It worth a single $ ...not $1 k....

I went to that show and bought 22 pieces of asc tube traps from an estate sale. These traps were loaned out to different rooms so i had to wait until the end of the show and come back with a uhaul. Possibly the best purchase for my room that ive made. Killer deal!

There was no subwoofer???

did you get a chance to hear OCD Mikeys room? Curious how those bookshelf Fischer and Fischers sound with the NAT tube amps

Amazing Monitors for US$1000,00...a must for all !!!...