Gilmore Audio planars revealed

Yes, there was a typo. Total excursion is 2 inches, which is plus or minus 1 inch, not plus or minus 2 inches. It's as simple as that. A number of people on the forum figured that out by themselves. I wanted to make sure that it was clear. That' what people with integrity do -- they admit when they are wrong and stand firm when they believe that they are right.

Yes, that pricing is correct. Sorry, but I was not permitted by the moderator to state the price. I tried to answer the forum earlier. We are able to offer that price because we will be selling them predominantly through home-based showrooms, rather than through the traditional dealer network -- otherwise they would have to be priced even higher. We hope to have a national network of these home showrooms in the near future. Eight should be open before Christmas.

If you go on ebay, you can see the reports on me as "buyerwithintegrity". A perfect record with over 600 transactions. I took this name on audiogon several years ago before I even met Mark Gilmore. I took this moniker because I believe that integrity is one of the most important qualities that anyone can have in their business dealings. And I believe that I set a standard when it comes to doing business with integrity. I have been that way my whole life. I hope that you will have the opportunity to meet me so that you can look me in the eye and see for yourself. Fortunately, some of you have seen the satirical tone in the ads. A big part of audio for me is having fun. One of the most fun things in life is being involved with beautiful things. I have been involved with music for most of my life -- still play with some of the best guys on their instruments in the world. I have dreamed my whole life of having the finest musical reproduction system in the world. And when you think about what very serious audiophiles spend, what we have to offer brings the "best of class" within many more people's reach. I am sorry that we can not sell these speakers for 1/4 the price. That would make me very happy. My father was one of the founders of the discount store industry in this country -- discounting is in my blood. But I can say without reservation that these speakers are well worth the money relative to those offerings that aspire to be the best.

Some of you know that Duke and Albert Porter are serious folks and well-meaning folks. WE have a lot of such people assoicated with us: Mr. Tri Dung from Tri-Planar; Mr. Roger West from Soundlab whose speakers changed my life; Ralph Karsten from Atma-Sphere, winner of more Golden Ear Awards than any other company as far as we know; Donna and Kirk from SOTA turntables; Bob from Sound Anchor; the Magnans from Magnan Cables; All wonderful people, trying to do the right thing, with a great passion for music and music reproduction.

We are for real...and we respect healthy and respectful skepticism. We have no problem proving ourselves to the audiophile community. We feel confident about our ability to gain the respect of those who are sincere and knowledgeable. The product in our opinion speaks for itself. The claims we make aare as we see it, measure it and hear it. I hope after hearing and seeing Mr. Gilmore's creations that you will agree that it is special.

I do not know Mr. Errivera; but it is obvoius that he has first-hand experience and has some important insights for all to read. Mark GIlmore has a set of modified Amazings in his living room. As I said before, Mr. Carver's speakers were a wonderful inspiration to Mark to reach even higher -- to achieve something even more remarkable. The efficiency issue has been solved and the GIlmore speakers offer many other enhancements. I appreciate Mr. Errivera's comments. Thank you sir.

One more try:

At 60 degree horizontal dispersion, it is 3dB down. Considering that bass is not directional, 500 HZ is when this becomes significant (directional); below that things are pretty much omni-directional.

In terms of the vertical dispersion, what I can tell you is that it is enough. You stand up, you sit down, nothing really changes. That's why we really haven't bothered to measure it. There's another neat thing about well constructed line sources -- they are often louder at 3 meters than one meter, even though we measure sensitivity at 1 meter because every one else does.

Isn't life grand?