GoldenEar Triton Reference for a large room...

thank you @secretguy and @avanti1960.  i appreciate your thoughts and comments.

@secretguy:  may i ask your room's size please?  you mentioned you have the 1s, which i'm not familiar with.  is the model 1s a predecessor of the 1.R?

you mentioned that you can't ever imagine wanting more bass.  sure, i understand, but it is room-dependent, right?  i look forward to hearing about your particular set up so i may be more educated.  

thank you both in advance.

One other thought about the References:

considering that the speakers are in their 5th year (or thereabouts), with no stated improvements made since their introduction (i.e. no Reference 1.1), might these be a bit dated?

Quality control:  how do current owners of ANY GoldenEar speakers, especially the References, the Ones, the 1.Rs, etc, feel about the quality control?  either of the built-in amps, or any other aspects of their construction, their drivers, etc. please?

GoldenEar has been sold to Audioquest, is that also a risk to take into account?

these are some of the things on my mind.  i'd be grateful for the experienced folks here to give me your highly experienced comments, please.

thank you.

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i'm grateful for the helpful comments y'all have posted.  what a great group of experienced folks!  thank you!

the References are easy to drive, efficient, has adjustable deep bass, built-in amps which makes the midrange/tweeter easy to drive, thus an Anthem or Arcam might work well with these.

my remaining concerns are:

-  5-year old technology, design.  No improvements or "Model Reference 1.1" made yet.  Is this a real risk?  These continue to be considered Class A at both The Absolute Sound and Stereophile - literally can't get better accolades than these two publications.  Still, worth thinking about whether a 5-year old, untouched design, might be dated?

-  GoldenEar is now sold to Audioquest.  Is this a real risk?  Would customer service suffer?  Or might an injection of funding, the backing of a strong infrastructure actually benefit GoldenEar?  They have been very quick to ship out replacement amps to those with failed amp sections - will this continue?  Or will they become more stingy due to the corporate structure?

-  Quality control:  is being made overseas really an issue?  Many products are made overseas and may be either top tiered products or lower tiered products.  It all depends on what the customer paid for and asked for, right?  Is this not a real risk or is it a risk to some degree?  Clearly, this isn't a "Yugo" or a Ford "Pinto"!  So why would THIS high end product made overseas be a concern, and iPhones and Nikon cameras be not a concern?  Legitimate question.  Personally, i'm merely slightly concerned about quality control, but that's a concern about any high value purchase in general!

Thank you all in advance!  Look forward to hearing!

@mofojo et al:

may i ask how you feel the References will sound with an Anthem 1140 or 740 AVR please?

i'll also have to buy one of the GoldenEar Center channel speakers.

@gimmeroc:  thanks for your comment.

this is the very first opinion that i've ever read that the References have fatiguing highs!

may i ask if anyone else found either the 1.R or the References to be fatiguing as well please?  

i ask about those two models because they share the same tweeters with the higher gauss magnets.

other models as well: are the other models' tweeters fatiguing too?

haven't heard about fatiguing highs till now!

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@ozzy62:   i'm not "worried if i'll have enough bass..."

my concern is with such a large room and the fact that it is connected to another room, mostly all open without walls, that the bass might be substantially "lost" due to bass leakage.

as to whether my neighbors will have the same concern, i do not yet know.  when i find out, i'll be sure to circle back to inform you.

a follow up question please:

i've essentially decided that i'll get the GoldenEar Triton Reference speakers for my front left and front right speakers.

for my center channel, GoldenEar has 3 options: X, XL, or Reference center.

i'm using an Ultra Short Throw projector, the Hisense 120" L9G, so the projector is quite some distance from the wall, but close to the floor (i.e. low), which means the center channel needs to be BELOW the Hisense projector.

The Hisense L9G ultra short throw projector is around 24" wide, so the Reference center at 35" is much wider in size than the Hisense projector. Please note that the Hisense is on the top shelf, with the center BELOW the Hisense. This floorstanding stand will have to be custom made.

considering that the Reference center at 35" is SO much wider than the Hisense projector (at 24" wide), i am thinking of getting the middle size center from GoldenEar, their "XL" center, which is 29" wide, which is merely 2 1/2" wider on either side of the projector. that means the stand would only have to be around 5" wider than a stand made for the projector-only, not that much wider.

may i ask if anyone has experience with these centers please? am i giving up that much by not getting the Reference center and just getting the "XL" center please?

thank you.