Gershman Black Swans


Did anyone hear these at CES and/or does anyone own these? I have recently heard excellent things about them and the reviews appear to be uniformly good. Since I don't anticipate being able to demo them anytime soon, I'm curious how they would compare to my VSA VR-7se's, which I am using with a Velodyne DD-15 sub. Same league? Better? Not as good? Similarities? Differences? Any positive input welcome.
Thanks in advance.
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Just noticed this thread about Black Swans. I own a pair since last summer and couldn't be happier about it. These are definitely the best speakers I ever had in my system and I've had some good ones. To me they are very musical and smooth sounding bur not at the cost of rolled off extremes. They are very involving with all clarity and resolution you could wish for and yet they lack any kind of brightness and edginess. Properly set up the soundstage is as wide and deep as you could wish for. My associated equipment includes Wadia 581SE going directly to Nuforce 9SE V2 monos. The speaker cables are Magnan Signature (used by Gershman at some shows). Interconnects are balanced Acoustic Revive and all power cords are LessLoss.

Yes, there is a lot of competition at their price range but the Black Swans are the most difficult to find used on Audiogon.......Wonder why?