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Salk HT3 vs Sonus Faber Domus Grand Piano

Ok yeah this is another one of those "which is better" posts, but I am genuinely befuddled in my last phases of speaker choice. Personally I love the seperation, definition that the Sonus Faber Grand Piano has. I like to hear the structure of the music, even if it is a little too revealing. I also really like the looks of those puppies.

Enter the HT3...

But after reading through the reviews and the posts, it seems that Jim Salks speakers are really hard to beat. People seem to prefere the overall sound quality and are calling out the Sonus Faber crossovers as less than perfect. In fact it seems that people might put the HT3 in the same class as some the Cermona or even higher priced 3way towers from SF.

The cabinet is a bit bulky for me application but if the sound quality is far superior I think my short list might need to get reordered.

So has anyone heard a side by side test of the SF vs the HT3?
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I auditioned a pair of SF Cremonas months ago and while I liked the overall sound, they did not excite me. In fact, they sounded a bit tame (e.g. muddied in the midrange and rolled off in the high freqs). I believe I read somewhere that these are voiced with a "BBC hump" and perhaps this is what I heard although the audition did not take place in my listening room. I also auditioned Vienna Acoustics Mahlers (similar sound), Maggie 3.6s, Dynaudio Contour 3.3s and Salk HT3s. In the end, I purchased the Salk HT3s.

As a former Innersound ESL owner, I can sum up the HT3s like this; I have the transparency and detail of ESLs combined with tremendous bass and excellent off axis response of a traditional cabinet speaker. While I lost some of the pinpoint imaging of the ESLs, I gained a much wider sweet spot and overall, a much better speaker IMO.

As a previous poster suggested, you can find much more info in the owners group on AudioCircle.com.
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