New speakers unveiled from Clayton Shaw - Caladan

As an early adopter of the X3s (now gone), I’m interested too. I guess I’ve been behind, I didn’t know Clayton left Spatial.

@ricevs 

I was an early adopter of the X3. I paid 7500.00 and that was before the big price increase. Although they were very good speakers, ultimately they weren’t for me so I moved on.  Now that speaker is where I can see a good sized profit being made. I’d guess he might have had 3000.00 (tops) in parts.

The way I see it, I don’t think the term is meant to denigrate, but compliment. At least in this case. It’s pretty obvious that Clayton is not making bank selling these speakers at that price. I would imagine this is an introductory offer that has a limited time span. 
 

Again, just my guess.

pennfootball71

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11-04-2023 at 03:32pm 

Open baffle is midfi

I don’t think I can go along with that at all. Sounds like an uninformed opinion to me.

For any faults the X3 might have had, bass response and accuracy was not any part of it. Truly world class bass from that speaker.

I love the way @pennfootball71 comes into a thread bashing three thousand dollar speakers as midfi, and to prove his point he compared them to speakers costing many thousands of dollars (some even six figures).

Where does midfi end and high end begin for you Mr. Penn? Can’t you come up with a better comparison than that? You go straight to Wilson and Vivid. Have you even heard any of the better open baffle designs?

OB speakers surely aren’t targeting the Wilson crowd. Obviously there’s too much chest beating puffery in that neighborhood.

I didn’t have an issue with the AMT driver really. What I didn’t like was using a 12” driver to reproduce the midrange. It was a little beamy and didn’t have the realism and texture of a good midrange reproducer. The X3 is the only spatial speaker I’ve heard, but it seems that Clayton insists on using larger drivers for the midrange in all his designs. I’d really like to hear a pair of the PAP using the wooden horn.

That's pretty good. I paid 400.00 to ship the X3s. And this was in 2019.