I heard them on both Saturday and Sunday.
On Saturday, Mr. Jones was giving a presentation. The room was jam packed and hard to get into but I managed to work my way forward over time. He's a very entertaining speaker (no pun intended) and made the listening that much better. His choice of songs was impeccable which certainly helped the quality of the demo. There was a Q&A session and one of the questions that came up was 'how did you make the highs sound so open and engaging' (or something like that) and his answer focused on the work he had done on the concentric driver. I left saying 'wow - I want to hear more and will return'.
On Sunday, I returned and the crowd was much smaller. At the time they were playing some chamber music - and the presenter was not nearly as engaging. To be fair, this is not a genre of music I can judge, and I didn't want to hang out too long waiting for it to change, so I can't add a second listening opinion.
I would definitely take a listen and see what you think. There's a lot of competition in the price range (Revel, Focal, Golden Ear to name a few) but these are definitely worth consideration. Hopefully you can find a dealer who can demo them well.
On Saturday, Mr. Jones was giving a presentation. The room was jam packed and hard to get into but I managed to work my way forward over time. He's a very entertaining speaker (no pun intended) and made the listening that much better. His choice of songs was impeccable which certainly helped the quality of the demo. There was a Q&A session and one of the questions that came up was 'how did you make the highs sound so open and engaging' (or something like that) and his answer focused on the work he had done on the concentric driver. I left saying 'wow - I want to hear more and will return'.
On Sunday, I returned and the crowd was much smaller. At the time they were playing some chamber music - and the presenter was not nearly as engaging. To be fair, this is not a genre of music I can judge, and I didn't want to hang out too long waiting for it to change, so I can't add a second listening opinion.
I would definitely take a listen and see what you think. There's a lot of competition in the price range (Revel, Focal, Golden Ear to name a few) but these are definitely worth consideration. Hopefully you can find a dealer who can demo them well.