Montreal Audio Show - anyone hear the FR30’s?


I heard they made a big splash and received applause but wondering if anyone here had the oppty this weekend to hear them ? 

aj523

Aj523-the $120k/pair Kroma Audio Elektra floor standers. The room sounded good, it had creek gear which I never heard creek gear sound this good. I was thinking the speakers should be in the $10k-$15k price range. 
IMO, there are many many speakers in the $20k range that sound much better like the revel salon/studio 2’s, the bigger ushers, and others. 
The room across from this room, had the fink speakers which sounded good too. Again, I was thinking they were in the $5k-$7k range and the were $33k, these were smallish 2 ways that would not hold a candle to any of the speakers that I listed above in the $20k range. Actually, I think my smaller Revel tower speakers are every bit as good and they were 1/16 the price. 
 

aj, thanks for the video. I think with any speaker there is a "best" location. For some reason many manufacturers don’t take advantage of that. Unless the design dictates something different, many speakers will sound best when well away from the walls. Give PSA credit for doing that.

One of the very best sounding demos I’ve heard was at a SoCal dealer decades ago. They set up the current version of Vandersteen 2 speakers (@ something like $12-14 hundred) along with top end Audio Research electronics. The speakers were maybe 5-6 feet out from the front wall and more than that from either side wall. Clean, well defined, extended, and with a huge soundstage. It was hard to imagine a speaker at that price could sound so realistic.

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