Coherent Speakers from Canada


Hi. I am quite interested in this line of speakers, especially the 10" and 12" models..has anyone had experience with them? or currently running them? The only place I see them for sale is from a dealer in Canada, Audiowise....any info would be appreciated.

rwanda

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Coherentguy:

Here's an example: my personal website: www.steve-fretz.com.  It took me a couple of hours, tops.  It's for my fine art photography, so not exactly your line of work, but I think it's cohesive and advertises what I do accurately.  I did it even though I know nothing about web development. 

For you, getting really good product photos will be the hardest part.   

I love speakers and speakerbuilding, and if you'd like advice/help, PM through audiogon and I'll give you IRL contact info.  It's probably not as hard a job as you think, if you start with the right framework.  I totally get that your "real" work comes first, but as a very perceptive realtor once told me, "people shop with their eyes.
I spend a lot of time on speaker-building related sites and I KNOW I've seen that coaxial driver somewhere.  (It's not B&C, Faital, Eminence or P.Audio, but ... I'll find it).

Of course the work in speaker building is optimizing the crossover and building a furniture grade cabinet, and from the looks of things (and your reports) it seems as though this is done well.

The drivers are probably quite expensive, even purchased in bulk, so the price being charged for the speakers seems exceptionally fair to me.

Would love to hear them.
Unlike many of you posting on this thread, I’ve always preferred solid-state—high-power, high-current solid-state—to tubes.


The most amazing speaker demo I’ve ever had was Tannoy Churchills driven by a Krell FPB 300.

The night before we’d heard Le Sacre du Printemps live, 5th row center at Avery Fisher.

The Tannoys, playing the Reference Recordings version of same, were able to recreate the performance, the sound washing over us like waves breaking on shore.

I love tubes as much as the next guy (probably more ... was deeply into horns and SETS for many years), but there’s a lot to be said for big, effortless, grain-free solid state.

Except the cost, of course.