SP Tech Timepiece 3.0-Dynaudio C1 comparison?


Anyone fortunate enough to compare these two speakers? If so would like to hear your opinion.
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I have to add my two cents, you can read mine and others about the Minis which are currently my reference speakers and the price I have seen is $2500 direct or was. The Minis are so good that the 3.0 can only been even better if thats possible. I have owned speakers with Dynaaudio drivers and they I believe to my ears the SP Tech are better than anything I have owned and posibly heard at the shows. I think that SP TECH is still trying to catch up on orders(?)And most of us who have recieved them feel lucky. IMHO/ FWIW
OK, It's now September. Has anyone else received a pair of 3.0s that would like to comment on them? Also, what stands are you using? Thanks!
I finally received mine about a week and a half ago, after an agonizing nine-month wait. Boy, was it worth it. As I write I'm listening to Wagner's Tannhäuser, and it sounds glorious, which I realize is not an audiophile kind of word. I love the combination of heftiness and clarity. I listen to a lot of orchestral music (and just about everything else) and, as everybody knows, massed violins seem particularly tough for speakers to get right. Here they're smooth and sweet without the grating shrillness I have found on other speakers, but without losing the natural astringency of strings. The bass is taut but robust--I was nervous whether would be enough of it, particularly at the low-ish volumes of a much of my listening. As others have mentioned, percussion crackles extremely convincingly--Paul Motian's drum set sounds like, well, Paul Motian's drum set, which is quite a treat. I have heard details that I just didn't realize were there when the same recordings were played through other (very good) speakers. I could even swear that some of the tempos sounded different which I realize makes no sense at all. Right this moment, Bob Smith is my hero, just after Gandhi. I hope others respond, because I'd like to wallow a little in some smugness and self-congratulation.