Fascinated By GR Research Channel


Lately I've watched a number of the videos on GR Research's youtube channel and been very intrigued. If you aren't familiar with them, they design and sell some speakers, but most of their business is DIY speaker kits, and doing upgrades on customer's speakers. In the videos, they show how they measure the performance characteristics of speakers sent in and then explain the thought process and methodology of choosing improvements. 

If nothing else, anyone wanting to better understand the technical section of reviews (e.g. John Atkinson's in Stereophile), would likely learn something watching.

Another interesting aspect of these videos is the clear untangling of various manufacturers' choices in balancing cost for performance and the sonic impact of various compromises. 

Get your popcorn and check it out. 

I'm also curious to hear of your experiences with any of their kits or products and if your findings match their messaging. I've always understood that better parts quality will improve sonics, but this channel demonstrates exactly how with great clarity...fascinating! Cheers,

Spencer 

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 I am always amazed at Danny's detractors. OF COURSE he is trying to sell his kits! It is literally his main job. OF COURSE many times it is not worth it to upgrade your speakers... and he tells you so. OF COURSE he is harsh  on speakers sent to him. He is an expert experienced speaker designer and knows when corners were cut and quality is poor! It's one of the main (guilty pleasure) reasons most of us watch him dissect name brand products that most of us know are crap. Think Klipsch....  The guys seems as authentic as you get and if he comes off as arrogant it may be because he doesnt sugar coat his opinions and he has a lot of experience listening and designing amazing systems. I have learned more from his channel than all other you tubers combined by a LONG shot. Someday I hope to build his open baffle studio monitor.

Have to bump this back up because everything that people said about Danny comes out in this arrogant, d&ckish video he posted.

 

Some of the video does make some sense BUT the arrogance that drives me crazy about the man comes shinning thru........it's quite creepy in a way of just how arrogant he gets in this video.

Yes the proof is in the pudding. Or in Wichita Falls Texas. 

Most reviewers never open up a speaker to show what is

inside. For Harbeth Prices I think we deserve both a peak

inside and an analysis of it workings. If you believe in keeping

things out of the signal path, sorry Harbeth disagrees.

Thank you Danny Boy!!! Keep it up!!! 

Yesterday I saw a "response video" here:

https://youtu.be/zxlUYfpxNMY

I've watched Jay previously, and while he dumbs things down often to target a larger audience, you can tell he's worked with many high end systems and is good at calling out concerns that newbies may not know(e.g. cartridge output and phono stage matching). His overall vibe is like many traditional magazine reviews in that the words are 95% positivity, but he drops enough hints to read between the lines to get to the negatives. 

Get your popcorn ready, because he ordered a pair of GR's during the video and promised a full review, which he swears will be unbiased. His overly-defensive sidekick obviously saw a little of himself in Danny's video. This might evolve in a WWE direction. Cheers,

Spencer

to me, the fundamental problem with d-r is his whole approach is to show up others making speakers ... well, i suppose we all need to make a living somehow ... but for me, personally, i would try to find a better way, without the central premise being to sh*t on other people’s lawns

’hey now i am looking out for you, really’.... ’look at these other brand named speaker makers ripping you off, selling you cheap crap’... 'that speaker you bought, well sorry but you were taken to the cleaners'...  ’now that i have your undivided attention, here is where to send me money’...