AXPONA 2025

I am at Joseph audio fanboy.

Did anyone hear Jeff’s room with the pearls?

Thanks Don.

it was hearing Jeff’s room with the Pearls in Montreal

That led me to eventually purchasing my Joseph audio perspective 2 speakers.

The Joseph Audio site says;

”Live, unamplified music has unmistakable presence and clarity. Yet, at the same time it also sounds relaxed and warm.”

That’s exactly how I hear things, And that seems to be the balance that Jeff has

Achieved in his designs.  The sound strikes me as luxurious.

Don,

I believe Jeff’s description relates essentially to tonality and timber and detail.

I’ve been sort of obsessed with live versus reproduce sound for as long as I can remember.  I used to do live versus reproduced tests of recordings through different speakers in my own home, and I’m constantly closing my eyes when the presence of un amplified sources, and taking in what to me are the salient characteristics.

Certainly there are the type of  life like dynamics tend to distinguished live, even just somebody fingerpicking a guitar.

But in tonal and timbral terms, it is always struck me how relaxed and unforced and unmechanical and organic the detail is in voices and instruments.  And the other thing always strikes me is how much richer, in terms of the sense of body and fulness, and the thicker richer level of harmonics. Even a single pluck string of an acoustic guitar or a single high note on a violin sounds thicker and harmonically richer and in that way warmer than what I hear through most reproduced sound.  

So my may take away it’s just like Jeff’s:   Real voices and instruments have an effortless clarity and presence, no technology between you and them, while the detail doesn’t seem heightened or mechanical or artificially boosted, but just “ there” and relaxed, along with the greater richness and warmth of harmonics.

So often in high-end reproduced sound, when we are struck with the effortless clarity of a system it can come from systems that are exaggerating detail, or that are tonally or harmonically lean.

Jeff’s trying to capture that combination of effortless clarity it doesn’t come with the expense of aggressive or lean/cool, but which combines both.

That’s what I feel. I’m getting in my system.   So that’s helped along even further by using CJ tube amplifiers.

@zlone 

Don’t base your impressions off that one room.

Jeff Joseph is renowned for USUALLY getting great sound at shows even when most other rooms are struggling to sound good.  That’s why his rooms have been popular for something like 20 years.  His room wouldn’t be popular if they regularly featured poor quality or bass bloat, an effect by far most comments mention how balanced the sound is normally including the bass.

Excellent quality is one of the reasons many customers buy his speakers.

I own the Joseph Perspective 2 speakers and they probably have among the best bass I’ve heard in my room, and terms of tightness and punch.