Blade vs S5 vs Avior vs Hansen's Prince E's

Fly into NY and you can hear my Blades and Scaenas at my shop, Audio Doctor in Jersey City NJ

You can hear the Avior and Magicos at Ears Nova in NYC and there is a Hansen dealer in Brooklyn.

Personally I have heard all the Magicos and I was never impressed, I havne't hear the new Aviors, they do look like they would be pretty darn good, the Hansens I havnen't heard in years, but the last time I heard a pair I wasn't amazed by them.

I would say that the Blades if you get them right sound more like a $70k plus speaker, then anything I have heard, they throw a huge soundstage, have superb dynamics and can produce very deep bass, the problem is two fold many dealers don't have the rooms which the speakers will work in or they don't have the right equipment, considering that the speakers use dual side firing woofers they affect room acoustics more than conventional designs with front facing woofers.

Fly into NY and you can hear my Blades and Scaenas at my shop, Audio Doctir, in Jersey City NJ

You can hear the Avior and Magicos at Ears Nova in NYC and there is a Hansen dealer in Brooklyn.

Personally I have heard all the Magicos and I was never impressed, I havne't hear the new Aviors, they do look like they would be pretty darn good, the Hansens I havnen't heard in years, but the last time I heard a pair I wasn't amazed by them.

I would say that the Blades if you get them right sound more like a $70k plus speaker, then anything I have heard, they throw a huge soundstage, have superb dynamics and can produce very deep bass, the problem is two fold many dealers don't have the rooms which the speakers will work in or they don't have the right equipment, considering that the speakers use dual side firing woofers they affect room acoustics more than conventional designs with front facing woofers.

Fly into NY and you can hear my Blades and Scaenas at my shop, Audio Doctir, in Jersey City NJ

You can hear the Avior and Magicos at Ears Nova in NYC and there is a Hansen dealer in Brooklyn.

Personally I have heard all the Magicos and I was never impressed, I havne't hear the new Aviors, they do look like they would be pretty darn good, the Hansens I havnen't heard in years, but the last time I heard a pair I wasn't amazed by them.

I would say that the Blades if you get them right sound more like a $70k plus speaker, then anything I have heard, they throw a huge soundstage, have superb dynamics and can produce very deep bass, the problem is two fold many dealers don't have the rooms which the speakers will work in or they don't have the right equipment, considering that the speakers use dual side firing woofers they affect room acoustics more than conventional designs with front facing woofers.

Team 212 Sceanas are not bright at all, the 3.2 with the original ribbon tweeters are actually a tad recessed in the extreme treble, I own a pair!

The blades stuggle? In a realistically sized room they will play louder then you can stand without compression,

In my 26 by 20 by 10 room they can play louder then I can tolerate! In last years NY audio show we were in actually too large a room for even the Blades to work well in, this room was about 40 feet long, but the real problem was that it was two rooms connected and there was a huge suckout where the two rooms became one, we had great sound at the previous show in a large but much better sounding room.

Aviors based on what? Smaller soundstage then the Blades, not a Coherent, and not a point source, other then some really heroic cabinet construction in what ways would you thin the Aviors would be better?