Has anyone listened to or auditioned Verity's new Arindale speaker ?

@havocman , I have only listened to S and Q series speakers so I can not comment about A series.

Build quality is easy to determine. You can see it, even in a photograph to an extent. Sonic quality is another issue. You can not rely on what anyone tells you and that goes for my opinion also. I can't listen to the speaker in your room. When you say "too bright", that is an amplitude issue. Amplitude response can change just by moving the speaker a foot! What does "too bright" mean. Is the treble too loud or is the midrange too soft? Maybe the listener is used to listening to a system that is too dull. Trying to say any type of driver sounds like such and such is incorrect. There are too many ways to change amplitude from the room, to the crossover, to the type of amp being used, to the listener. Beryllium tweeters can be constructed to play extremely loud with very low distortion for a dynamic driver.

Lastly, with high resolution digital EQ capability, resolution in 1 Hz increments I can make any speaker sound like anything. With a modern digital processor amplitude response is completely plastic and can be tuned in the environment the speaker is going to live in.

I can not make any loudspeaker image correctly. There are very few systems that can. Most of use have never heard a system that does. That includes all those fanboys with the flowery descriptions of "wide and deep" soundstages. The sound stage depends on the recording. For the first 17 years of my audiophile life I had never heard a system that imaged a the state of the art. When I did my jaw must have dropped three feet and that moment is burned into my head forever. Next was creating a system for myself that could do the same thing. That took another 15 years or so, another $150,000 and hours and hours of screwing around and learning what it was that made a system perform at that level. On the bright side you do not have to spend a million dollars to get there. Excluding the room and at current prices you can probably get reasonably close for $100,000 and all the way there for $200,000. Anything more than that I consider to be "luxury" audio just for bragging rights. 

mijostyn,

I have done it for a lot less my system is worth $70,000 and it sounds incredible very three-dimensional wide deep sound stage you can hear everything even way in the background very black silent background, so when you choose the right stuff 70 to 100,000 will do it. no need to go to 200,000.

There must be some extremely wealthy people in this group to even consider buying such expensive speakers.  They do look incredible.  They must sound incredible.  The cabinets look really high quality.  Wish I could afford them.

“so when you choose the right stuff 70 to 100,000 will do it.”
+1, @havocman 

There is a deep learning curve in one’s pursuit of audio nirvana. One can achieve it at a reasonable cost as long as you know how to put together a system. Synergy between components not to mention room acoustics (often an afterthought) is of utmost importance. Spending big dollars doesn’t always yields to a great sounding system. 

lalitk,

I totally agree with you, system synergy is very important and I'm very happy with my system I'll tell you what it is, Sim audio p8 preamp, Sim audio w8 amp, esoteric P10 transport, Wyred4Sound 10th anniversary DAC, monarchy audio up sampler speaker wire is Neotech Sahara rectangular copper OCC wire, interconnects are Neotech Sahara rectangular copper and silver OCC wire, the rectangular OCC wire is even better sounding than the round OCC wire, the best wire on the market for audio now, far superior to anything ofc and my power cords are Neotech The Grand rectangular OCC copper. My system is worth about 70,000.