Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s?


I heard they made a big splash and received applause but wondering if anyone here had the oppty this weekend to hear them ? 

aj523

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Aj523-the $120k/pair Kroma Audio Elektra floor standers. The room sounded good, it had creek gear which I never heard creek gear sound this good. I was thinking the speakers should be in the $10k-$15k price range. 
IMO, there are many many speakers in the $20k range that sound much better like the revel salon/studio 2’s, the bigger ushers, and others. 
The room across from this room, had the fink speakers which sounded good too. Again, I was thinking they were in the $5k-$7k range and the were $33k, these were smallish 2 ways that would not hold a candle to any of the speakers that I listed above in the $20k range. Actually, I think my smaller Revel tower speakers are every bit as good and they were 1/16 the price. 
 

Optimize-what are you talking about?  Raw speaker components have changed quite a bit in the last 40 some years: amt units (bought speakers with AMT driver in 1978 and since nobody wanted to pay Heil any royalties, nobody us d them until recently), Diamond tweeters, enclosure materials, crossover components, etc… If you want dsp, then get a $500 home theater amp with the mic and software. Keep it out of hi end audio.

People need to compare thes speakers to others for around the same price to see if this is what they like. Keep the measurement tools at home, just bring your ears which is the best tool an audiophile brings to the table. 

If you would have gone to the Tampa bay audio show last month, there were many  mid fi or even terrible sounding speakers that were way north of $30k. There was a tower speaker teamed up with creek gear and the speakers were ok sounding, and they were $110,000/$120,000. My $15k speakers would blow these away. 
I like PSA products so I would agree that they will sound very good and will be a bargain.