Young audiophile metal head looking to level up speaker choice

Klipsch Heresy IV

Golden Ear speakers would be just about the worst choice one could make. They will make a meal of Spam out of any metal music. Their tweeters are low-rent distortion machines, both in measurements and sound. The whole product line is a big money grab and the audio mags praising them are on the take—the only plausible explanation for why anyone would give them a positive review. 

@mofojo

 

Really…… if gonna come hard like that back it up. Where’s your proof of what you are saying?

“Their tweeters are low-rent distortion machines, both in measurements and sound. “

I mentioned their measured performance. One only need look up the measurements conducted by Stereophile and the like, notably with regard to their spectral decay. The performance of those AMTs is not remotely close to that of a high quality tweeter, regardless of type. Likely it’s a cheap Chinese built AMT of a quality similar to a Dayton Audio/Parts Express model.

This character was very evident in auditioning as well, otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered to bring it up. They were some of the harshest speakers I’ve auditioned over the last 15 years. And that was consistent across multiple auditions and systems. The speakers attempt to sound “detailed” with their laser focused, boosted highs. The sort of false detail one gets by cranking an amp’s treble knob. In most of these auditions they were powered by Mac SS amps which have an inherently warmish character, which made the whole experience that much more confounding.

The only way I can imagine these GE Tritons passing muster with Sandy Gross (and some reviewers) is presuming these guys suffer many dB of high frequency hearing loss, as does every man his age (not to pick on older guys as this happens to us all given enough time). But aside from that, they didn’t sound very remarkable by any other metric either. They really left me baffled (pardon the pun), because Sandy has designed some good sounding speakers in previous decades.

I recall in one of Zero Fidelity’s live YouTube broadcasts, a viewer asked Sean his opinion of GE speakers. He essentially likened them to a “modern Bose.”

I wouldn’t go quite that far, as GE’s certainly produce more high frequency energy than do any Bose products. 😄