Hello,
I have owned a pair of the Khorus and Peregrine for almost 3 years now and they continue to impress me. They now are part of my HT setup. I suspect the Ravens have much the same characters of these other two Talon products.
Initially I bought the Khorus to replace my long time favorite Magnepan 3.3's. The Talons had far more dynamic capabilities, an incredible low end extension, lower level resolution and were much easier to drive. There is absolutely no fatigue in their tonality and there are no significant peaks or valleys in their response.
A year later I was wanting that awesome midrange presentation that the Maggies did like no other speaker I had heard. So I moved the Talons to the HT setup and got another pair of Maggies for the music system. But often times I wanted the Talons back for the music. Today I have much of the best of both worlds with Sound-Lab A1s, but these are not so easy to drive like the Talons.
In the HT setup, the Talons were so superior in every way to the Thiel 3.6 and 2.3 that I had been using. This surprised and greatly impressed me. And you typically pay a lot more for speakers to get a solid bass presence like you get here.
The only negative comment I have with Talon products is concerning their MSRP and how quickly these products depreciate from original cost. I think that for what they sell for on the used market, there is very little else out there that comes even close to such performance. But I suspect that many people have concerns to try or own a speaker that loses its value to its list price so rapidly. I suspect if these were originally priced at 2/3 the list price, they might get a lot more respect.
John
I have owned a pair of the Khorus and Peregrine for almost 3 years now and they continue to impress me. They now are part of my HT setup. I suspect the Ravens have much the same characters of these other two Talon products.
Initially I bought the Khorus to replace my long time favorite Magnepan 3.3's. The Talons had far more dynamic capabilities, an incredible low end extension, lower level resolution and were much easier to drive. There is absolutely no fatigue in their tonality and there are no significant peaks or valleys in their response.
A year later I was wanting that awesome midrange presentation that the Maggies did like no other speaker I had heard. So I moved the Talons to the HT setup and got another pair of Maggies for the music system. But often times I wanted the Talons back for the music. Today I have much of the best of both worlds with Sound-Lab A1s, but these are not so easy to drive like the Talons.
In the HT setup, the Talons were so superior in every way to the Thiel 3.6 and 2.3 that I had been using. This surprised and greatly impressed me. And you typically pay a lot more for speakers to get a solid bass presence like you get here.
The only negative comment I have with Talon products is concerning their MSRP and how quickly these products depreciate from original cost. I think that for what they sell for on the used market, there is very little else out there that comes even close to such performance. But I suspect that many people have concerns to try or own a speaker that loses its value to its list price so rapidly. I suspect if these were originally priced at 2/3 the list price, they might get a lot more respect.
John