Goldenear Reference Vs. Focal Sopra #2.....pocket the $5k difference and don't look back?

So the ability to essentially boost the bass in speaker on the Triton reference is likely what is making you prefer it for rock music — which a lot of is recorded pretty thin.  Is that what I’m gathering?

gdhal: that means nothing.  Sandy Gross is the ultimate wine & dine and marketing master when it comes to reviewers.  They’re not bad speakers, but if you’re ever going to be skeptical, be skeptical about anything he touches, review wise.

Ignorance is bliss.  Truly.

FWIW I think golden ear speakers are great. I respect them a lot. I just don’t think they’re giant killers, or necessarily punch substantially above their weight (price) at all (very few speakers actually do).

12hz.....   at 12db.   

gdhal: You calling me ignorant is truly hilarious considering that you are taking the measurement from focal at -6db, but not the Golden Ear.    The -6 on the GE is 18hz (which is impressive of course, but not that impressive considering that it has a power sub with DSP built in).  I know you want to defend your speakers, but try to have some credibility instead of throwing numbers around nonsensically.  If you can't make it a fair comparison, don't bother calling others ignorant.

Thanks for the laughs.

Gdhal: apparently you don’t understand.  The Sopras can go lower than you are suggesting, but it’s not any reasonable output.  Just like the output at 12hz isn’t reasonable output on the GE.  

You seem to fail to understand basic speaker measurement concepts.  The funny part is, the page you linked me to as “evidence” to my ignorance doesn’t even show what you say.  Apparently you’re going by the 12hz-35k frequency response listed on the web site.  Again, thanks for the laughs.  Learn a little bit of speaker basics before you post and embarrass yourself again.

Gdhal, it’s funny you say that, yet you don’t understand the difference between the Focal -6db bottom end measurement and the golden ear “12hz” (likely at -10db or more) sandy gross marketing bottom end measurement since you compared the two as if they’re the same measurement.