my sense is that is avalon has always been a small company of dedicated craftsmen, having chosen years ago to be dependent on the traditional dealer/distributor network to service customers directly
What a shame..I bought a new pair of Avalons back in the 1990s when they were tauted as one of the brands to own...they use to send me a xmas card every season for many years..Boy have times changed.
A speaker maker that in some respects reminds me of Avalon is Aspen Acoustics. See my review of the Lagrange L5 MkII at Dagogo.com, and my system pics showing the preproduction model ($15K) of the Lagrange L1, which I will review. The MSRP to performance is commensurate to Vandersteen or Magnepan.
LOL. They are clean sounding but dry. Put the wrong equipment with them and they get bright real fast. They have no grain in the sound though which is hard to do.
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