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What is the future for Proac Speakers ?

I have always enjoyed their speakers and have owned them in the past. However, from what I have heard, they are no longer being imported into the US due to distribution problems, the main engineer is no longer there and Mr. Tyler's future is in question. I also see an increase in Proac's being sold here on Audiogon. Does anybody know what's going on at Proac ????
garebear
stewarttyler
4 posts
 

Hi Guys

just a quick update on ProAc. We recently took orders from importers

in house. We also got rid of some dead wood who were making Proac more difficult and expensive. So we have new importers in Canada,

Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden Germany. More will come after

checking people are happy in the country they live in.

I am working on 3 new models, but none that makes current models defunct. I will post more info soon.

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milpai
2,377 posts
 
Stewart,
Good to know. I was at AXPONA and visited ProMusica room 3 times to hear the ProAc D30S. It is one of the speakers that made some nice music. Keep up the good work!
nolaholic
4 posts
 
Stewart or any others that are familiar with ProAcs.  I demoed some Tablette 10s that sounded amazing a month ago.  Finally made the plunge and bought some.  However they sound incredibly muddy right now.  Especially the vocal tracks (almost sound underwater or in a tunnel).  I have read that they will take a while to break in.  I have never had to break speakers in before.  The PSB Image B-25s I upgraded from sounded ready out of the box.  

I have Ave been trying to run the speakers while at work but my Appletv keeps cutting off so I have no idea how many hours are on them yet I have played maybe 15 hours of vinyl and normal tv with center channel set up.  I'm guessing 30 hours of total music time.  Starting to get a bit nervous with the purchase.  What is a reasonable amount of break in time in which I will finally hear a noticeable positive difference and real separation of instrumentation?
audioconnection
1,271 posts
 
Greetings Nholic over 150 plus hour of run in is typical..
Please share your whole system cables stands and all?
 How far apart are the speakers tweeter to tweeter?
 How far away are speakers in inches to your ears
 How high are the tweeters off the ground?
  How high are your seated ears off the ground?
  Can you shoot a pic and post it to virtual systems
   that would be great.
 Can you get them so you are in a triangle with the speakers
 and then only see just a wee bit of the inside of each speaker from your seat position.
 Don't sweat yet they are a really nice pair.
 Cheers,
 JohnnyR
Audio Connection
Pro Ac dealer 27 years
nolaholic
4 posts
 
My setup is not ideal.  Speakers are in a custom built cabinet into the wall.

137 inches tweeter to tweeter.  About 3 ft off the ground.  Isoaccouatic stabilizers (medium size) angled upwarrds.  119 inches to prime listening position.  Ears probably at 4 ft from ground.  Left speaker is completely visible and right is partially blocked due to cabinet Co figuration.  I will upload pics as well.
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