Anyone heard the new Pass Labs Rushmore at CES?

The original Threshold speaker was called the Ion Cloud (perfect audiophile product: toxic and unobtainable).

Cheers!

Quin

I owned a pair of the Ionovac tweeters. A very strange product. I had it mated with the Jenzen four panel midrange driver and a large 4 woofer bass enclosure.

I honestly don't remember how it sounded. I think for the time it was quite good. Now I think it would probably be crap.

Richard

I heard them - they sounded good, some of the best at the show I think. Pricey, but given that you don't need amps for them, not too bad. nice construction. Design could use some improvement from an elegance standpoint, but they disappeared well (audio-wise, not visual-wise). Ribbon was nice and smoothly integrated. Overall a very nice speaker.

-Ed

I have a friend who attended CES, but couldn't get a valid listen. I have talked with Peter Perkins of Pass Labs about their speaker, and I do like their philosophy, for the most part. It makes sense to me to lighten up on the drivers as much as possible, and to anchor them to a dense face plate. The use of a ribbon tweeter gladdens my heart. I have to wonder, though, about the use of a purposefully resonating enclosure.

I think the Rushmore will be a the San Francisco Stereophile show, and I can get a listen to them there.