Thoughts on Spectral Audio gear


Anyone have any opinions on Spectral Audio gear? Good? Great? Bad? Seems like they use a strange design. Wide bandwidth with susceptibility to RF so you have to use MIT cables to filter it. 
jeffvegas

Used to sell it, and have owned it since the mid eighties.  Sonic characteristics changed when Keith O Johnson took over design from Demian Martin and so did the complexity of the build and am not as familiar with the latest stuff.  Their is a look and sound (a sort of house sonics?) that has been I guess their hallmark.  I 'm not going to get into futile discussions of sonics but I love it.  It's some of the best equipment out their with when I sold it ,basically 100% reliabilty.  Only came back for upgrades.  They don't advertize and they don't have to; it sells itself.  I'll say this about its sonics, if you want detail, if you want to hear each table of patrons in a night club clapping and chatting at some live performance of jazz and hear that space between and around your speakers, maybe truncated to fit, Spectral can do that in ways I have never heard other equipment do.  Not saying other equipment can't, I just have never heard that kind of detail delivered the way that they do.  Reviews and opinions are a waste of time; a dead end with equipment like this.  You really want to listen to it and hear for your self.

Goodwin 's HiEnd in Waltham mass is a Spectral dealer ... they are very knowledgeable,  they sell online too
I auditioned Spectral gear some years ago with Wilson speakers. I found it to be so clean and sterile that it did not sound real. To me, it was really unengaging.