YG Acoustics, Raihdo?


why no love for YG Acoustics and Raihdo ?
too expensive?
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I have not heard any YG speakers, but I auditioned a couple Raidho monitors.   Best ribbon tweeter integration I've ever experienced (I don't know if I've ever liked another dynamic speaker with a ribbon tweeter because I always hear a discontinuity).
Detail was as advertised, super fine, but smooth.  And the monitors sounded big, and punched hard for their weight.
Problem was I found myself too aware of the lack of neutrality, the frequency dip they engineer in to their speakers for the further-seat-in-the-hall, smooth and rich effect.  I kept finding that tracks I know on many other speakers (more neutral) were less engaging, in particular things like drum cymbals and percussion became more recessed and lost snap and drive.
I believe the YG speakers are supposed to be more neutral, so it depends on what type of character you are looking for in a speaker.
(I also agree with the concerns voiced by soix).

audiothesis,
Thanks for the heads up.   Maybe some day.   Never seen a dealer for those, and they look out of my price range.

Though the ribbon tweeter thing to me is similar to the hybrid electrostatics.  For years and years I've read reviews of electrostatic/hybrids that say "It used to be that hybrids had trouble coherently melding the dynamic drivers with the stat driver sound....but no more.  These are very coherent."  And then I heard that speaker and it's just the same old problem.   And it seems almost every review of a speaker using a ribbon tweeter starts the same "other designs had problems mating the ribbon with the dynamic drivers, but I heard no lack of coherence here...."    And then I hear the speaker, and it's the same old problem - I easily hear out the ribbon tweeter as a separate entity.
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