Did anybody else notice this about PSB Speakers?

Rave review = more advertising dollar = magazine stays in business = reviewer keeps job = groceries get bought = stores stay in business = farmer gets to pay for new tractor = well,you get the point.
I have to say,I have heard Mr. Barton's Synchrony One and it did sound really good.

I Have to say that PSB speakers are really well designed and those accolardes are truly deserved.In fact I prefers the synchrony 1 to Magico mini anyday;more coherence, more musical and certainly more affordables...

I have helped many friends with limited budget built their systems and with almost all of them ,centered around PSB speakers.

My only concern is that ,their quility might suffer after moving most of their productions to China.

PSB has proven time and time again, that the company can deliver a really well designed and well engineered product for a very reasonable price point, and with their latest series of products they have proven that they can deliver superb sound on many different price points!

The design of the PSB Synchrony proves how well engineered a product can be and still be priced at an affordable price point.

In terms of the Magico vs PSB comments, I think the Synchrony series is a much more interesting product in that it delivers a similar level of construction to the mighty Magico at a price point which most people can afford snd only Stereophile really focused on this product where many more reviewers should have jumped all over the product.

I am really curious to see what would happen if PSB applies this same advanced cabinet construction and pulls out all the stops with really expensive crossovers and wiring, which is the only area where the speaker could really be bettered.

I do think the Imagines are very good but not anywhere as exciting as what the Alphas offer for the price or the Synchrony series offers for that price, however, the Imagines when well set up offer a tremendous sound, big soundstage, and great low level detail.

The PSBs I've heard (Synchrony floorstanders) are quite good with good tube amplification. Though much different sounding from each other, they and the Magico Minis at way more are two speaker lines I have heard recently that I could probably live with. The third is mbl.

11-16-09: Tvad
At this point in time in the world of high end audio, all recommendations and reviews have to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism, IMO.

I considered that, and posted with the assumption we'd all be aware of that. But PSB has never been the audio press's golden boy in loudspeakers. That title gets passed around among Thiel, Vandersteen, Magnepan, Wilson, Magico, Usher, Sonus Faber, Martin Logan, etc. PSB is too mainstream, too conventional, too affordable.

Remember Siskel & Ebert? They seldom agreed, so when they did, chances are most people would like the film. I get the same feeling here. Anything that both Stereophile and TAS agree on so thoroughly and consistently (plus Soundstage and a host of other online pubs) *must* have something good going on. My personal experience bears that out. PSBs sound so good at their various price points you feel like they slipped you a ringer in the showroom.

And let's not forget, Stereophile is risking stirring up some high end speaker builders when they place a $5K mass-produced PSB right in there with about a dozen handbuilt $16K Class A Limited Extended LF picks.

So where it matters, picking the best at various price points, PSB rises to the top, from entry level up to the big dogs, and at rival publications.