Why Don't you hear more about Audio Physics Speakers??

Audio Physic has been one of my favorite brands for many years.

It started when I heard the Virgo (and eventually tried them in my home).

They possessed a very hard to find combination: super detailed, utterly disappearing, spacious, "fast" sounding...yet also with a timbral warmth.

Not necessarily "warm" as in filled out lower midrange but rather a timbral warmth where wood instruments sounded "right" and warm and woody, brass "warm and brassy" etc.

I found the Virgos had just a bit too much of an upper bass hump to make me pull the trigger, but later I reviewed the follow up AP model: the Libra.  That was much like the Virgo but sounded more linear and dynamic.  Fabulous speakers!  (Though missing just a bit of the upper frequency magic of the Virgo).

I'd heard various AP speakers, other versions of the Virgo, Avanti etc, over the years at local AV stores.

Later I owned the AP Scorpios.  Again, incredible disappearing act, dynamic, detailed.  Though a slight tonal shift in a direction that left me wanting more timbral warmth.

The last AP I listened to was during my mega speaker search several years ago (detailed in my long thread), which was the AVANTI.

Once again, it had the AP characteristics of disappearing in to a large detailed soundstage and imaging, wonderful clarity.  But ultimately the tone was a bit cool for my tastes.

Funny...like someone else mentioned...it was the Joseph Perspectives that I chose in the end, which had similar properties of being a slim floorstander that utterly disappeared in to a huge Soundstage, yet still managed to sound timbrally rich and warm to my ears.

Admittedly I have really wanted to hear the AP Codex, which could be very impressive.  As of a few years ago there were at least 2 stores selling and demoing AP speakers.  I don't think they sell them any more so perhaps a lack of presence is why we here less about the brand these days.

I think the Audio Physic speakers these days, e.g. Avanti, Codex and others, are among the best looking speakers I've seen.  It really helped that the got rid of the side firing woofers (now downfiring I believe), which made for a much smoother, neater look.   The new designs are so sleek and contemporary looking, and their wood finishes with that glass-like layer over them look really lux !

I generally agree that if you are looking for thickness,weight, slam then Audio Physic speakers aren't the go-to speakers.  That's one of the main reasons I didn't keep the Virgos after a home audition - too polite and soft with high energy music.

However the Libra speakers that followed were more dynamic, and the Scorpio model I owned really did have impressive guts and punch.

The Joseph speakers are slim floorstanding speakers that cast a walk-in-to-it soundstage like the AP speakers, but have a more pure tone and also, for their size, kick more *ss than the AP.   As John Atkinson put it in his review of the Joseph Perspective Graphene floorstanders:

"When the kickdrum was doubled with synth dropped-bass notes, I was astonished by how much clean, low-frequency energy four 5.5" woofers could pump into my room.

With the Perspective2's combination of clean dynamics and rich, well-defined low frequencies, orchestral music was well-served. The big tune at the start of the first movement of Elgar's Symphony No.1 (Sir Adrian Boult conducting the LPO, of course, 16/44.1k ALAC files ripped from CD, EMI Classics 64013), with its pulsing bass line, sent shivers down my spine."