I find a few things suspect about the review.
1) Can a reviewer truly be objective unless the item being reviewed is incorporated into a system/room that the reviewer is fully intimate with?
2) The reviewer repeatedly refers to drug-like effects. For all we know, DK was pumping pure oxygen into the listening area just like the casinos in Vegas do to keep customers awake, excited and a bit high.
3) Even if the enclosure was milled from a solid piece of billet aluminum, it wouldn't take three months. You certainly couldn't pump out several a day, probably couldn't even produce one in a day, as a complex custom motorcycle wheel machined from a round billet blank can take hours (doesn't anyone here watch the Discovery channel?). Hbarrel, any professional opinion on this one?
4) If Wilson Audio can manage getting pairs of their mega-monsters out to reviewers, why shouldn't DK? Again, get the speaker into a reviewer's room with their familiar gear and I'll give more merit to their review. How many times has it been iterated here that the best rule of thumb is an in home demo?
5) Aluminum is not the end all, beat all material for an inert cabinet. It's pretty damn good, but not the best.
Just some observations. Please note that I would love to hear these things though. I doubt they would be my cup of tea, but I bet they are capable of fairly impressive dynamics. I have listened to the Krell LAT-1 (another aluminum speaker enclosure design) with Dan D'Agostino himself in the listening venue tweaking and optimizing, utilizing his own electronics too. Very impressive, amazing dynamics, just not my cup of tea.
I think it's a bit odd to slam these speakers from a single review; however, I do understand pooh-poohing the review itself.
1) Can a reviewer truly be objective unless the item being reviewed is incorporated into a system/room that the reviewer is fully intimate with?
2) The reviewer repeatedly refers to drug-like effects. For all we know, DK was pumping pure oxygen into the listening area just like the casinos in Vegas do to keep customers awake, excited and a bit high.
3) Even if the enclosure was milled from a solid piece of billet aluminum, it wouldn't take three months. You certainly couldn't pump out several a day, probably couldn't even produce one in a day, as a complex custom motorcycle wheel machined from a round billet blank can take hours (doesn't anyone here watch the Discovery channel?). Hbarrel, any professional opinion on this one?
4) If Wilson Audio can manage getting pairs of their mega-monsters out to reviewers, why shouldn't DK? Again, get the speaker into a reviewer's room with their familiar gear and I'll give more merit to their review. How many times has it been iterated here that the best rule of thumb is an in home demo?
5) Aluminum is not the end all, beat all material for an inert cabinet. It's pretty damn good, but not the best.
Just some observations. Please note that I would love to hear these things though. I doubt they would be my cup of tea, but I bet they are capable of fairly impressive dynamics. I have listened to the Krell LAT-1 (another aluminum speaker enclosure design) with Dan D'Agostino himself in the listening venue tweaking and optimizing, utilizing his own electronics too. Very impressive, amazing dynamics, just not my cup of tea.
I think it's a bit odd to slam these speakers from a single review; however, I do understand pooh-poohing the review itself.