First, my HiFi does not suck. I find this kind of heading sucks.

Ron, good day! JBL Expert Series Northridge California, 4way towers from 2009. How are these better? I called Harmon Luxury and the supervisor said there is nothing in their line up that would be a worth while upgrade. Yes you heard that correctly. Any input? It seems JBL is just rehashing the tech from the world Class engineers before the plant closed.

HD620S - nothing else to add.

This is awesome… thanks got the videos. I am completely new to this… after allot of studying, I have decided on the NX studios. I can’t wait to hear them. I simple components. So it will be fun to slowly upgrade them and see how much “more” it can get.

if he discovers his hat screws his ears,,, he will freak

the problem is that your "awe shucks it don't mean no nothin'" philsophy is just as obnoxious

There should be a video on how to MAKE a room (ie, new build houses that you want to design a listening room/theater for)

I was thinking of buying Triangle BR08. I have no doubt now. You have done a very valuable work. Thank you very much.

I was thinking of buying Triangle Borea BR08. I have no doubt now. You have done a very valuable work. Thank you very much.

YpAO off and the best way to go is tu keep such recivers as neutral as possible and with more usage of only bass treble and the volume.

this sound demo through my zen dac 3 / kph30i setup sounds incredible.

Still using the tyrs?

Jazz at the pawn shop is the most overrated recording I've ever heard. It's fine. No better than that. The sound stage is all over the place. some of it almost sounds mono, other songs sound like the Vibes ate wide enough to drive a truck though. It is so oversaturated in the mid range that it often overmodulates (some vibe hits literally distort in the recording). Its a total let down.

Thanks for the review iv'e been waiting for. Send them to GR for upgrad and give us soundclipse afterwards. I'm sure they are built with "cheesy parts" and will soud even better without sandcast resistors. I belive they want us to pronuance it Aren dal. In scandinavia we put words together as you know and make it not so easy for you guys❤

*I studied cable technology in the military,, electronic weapons systems was my studies, people don't realize audio frequencies are not challenging to cables.* 😂😂😂

Amazing review!

Ron, will we get your review on the production Caldans?

That's not a small room.

It is impossible for me because I have a wife at home

Thank you Ron for this review. It gives a good overview about these 4 amplifiers. Someone can get a hint where the sound could lead to. However, RU-vid compresses the video and audio when uploaded to their portal. So I strongly recommend to listen to the amps before buying. And, furthermore not every amp works with every speaker.

How silly you are...............ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oLnBW3wuBSU.html

Love your vids. Question: any thought of how the Studio 6 series compares to the HDI series? I thought I heard they have the tweeter in common?

I'm starting to research this as I want to build a set of three-way powered studio monitors that I could EQ for recreational listening as well. I will probably want between 200 - 300 total RMS for each speaker. These will be running off of my computer that I use for my sound/video editing. do you have any packages that fit this guesstimate? I'd like to go with the flat-pack method on the enclosures. Do you have any input on this? Thanks, Paul. P.S. These would be connected via XLR. I've got a rich man's taste for sound quality with a beer drinker wallet :-)

Just get some cheap Logitech PC speakers and you're set for life. Just so you know, the tweeters are fake, but they still sound epic. 😄

what are their efficiently ratings? looking really low like not even 80db or am i mistaking

I have the Comete 40th and i like them. Before i had the KEF R300 and to me they sound aluminium, not natural. It's personal taste.

Aloha, again, Ron. Now that Clayton is getting close to filling my order, will you please make a few recommendations for power amps?

That is not the case. My Benz L2 Moving Coil cartridge works best on 47kOhm with a gain of 72db. Even the late Allen Wright of Vacuum State has recommended me not to load the Benz...And he is right!! There are some mc carts that can work with 47kohm and will sound amazing.

Great picks! I take 4 out of 5 🤩 I am just not a fan of organ and chors or opera. So instead of Cantate I would pick VSQ PERFORMS LADY GAGA with POKER FACE being first in it. I just like it.

Speaker placement over here in Europe is the biggest pain in the rear. Most of us live in cities, in apartments, so not only are we immediately hamstrung by having to play at respectable volumes and less bass, we are all living like sardines in tins, in annoyingly irregular shaped rooms, which simply don't enable us to pull speakers out into our spaces - every single inch of room is precious. I've got a really great pair of audio physic spark 3's in my dutch apartment, but because of the room I'm forced to back them against a wall (about 25cm from it) and I know full well that they sound infinitely better 1 meter away, but I can't do that, not even temporarily. I love the speakers though so I'm not gonna trade in for a set of bookshelf boxes. So yeah, practicalities often get well in the way of HiFi. It's not always binary.

I agree with everything that you described while listening to these speakers, with the exception of the Triangles being sibilant. Could be my ears could be my headphones?

More correct than not but use it as preamp driving krell amplifiers .. decades of improvement or your cake and eat it too ,I am driving old school krell mono block and using NAD m-33 as front end ohh it works new tech driving old school class A amplifiers . It was my plan and it works😊

I have an off-topic question for you. I'm aware that you own the Tsakiridis Alexander tube preamp. Since you've had this unit for many years, do you still use it frequently or have you found a preamp that sounds even better? I've been eyeing this preamp for some time now and expect to make a purchase soon. Your impressions?

The retail "lie" just left the building. Thank you 😊

These or the Elite?

Us as in the people who write and produce the music audiophiles listen to....find audiophiles funny. If you saw how some of the audio was recorded through $20 cables you'd freak. Yet somehow the 'directional' lifted off the floor $1,000 cable s going to improve it. 99% of the time audiophiles have terrible rooms to listen to audio in.

yes indeed the very top end in the 500s are better in directivity, the tweeter in the 500s focused a lot in the directivity in the very top end, also on-axis there is more energy in the very top end

I realised that Expensive doesn't mean always better. So far, like the Amplifier Arcam 9, polk loudspeaker, and Mission Speakers. Also, I like Cyrus! I have tried the Monitor Audio, DALI, and others but not all perform wow!

Some of the most absurd pieces of audiophile equipment I’ve seen are “high-end” CD players. They will have you believe that a $5k unit sounds so much better, then have the audacity to recommend using a $2k external DAC with upsampling. It’s DIGITAL, meaning the data is literally just read bit-for-bit off the microscopic pits on the disc surface and sent with perfect accuracy to the DAC (internal or otherwise). My 2005 Sony DVD/CD player, probably worth $20, does the same exact thing with absolutely no difference. The articles I used to read about these were priceless gems of hilarious pseudoscience and artfully-worded exaltations such as “beautiful soundstage”, “musical depth”, “unmatched realism”. It made for a good laugh.

LISTEN MAGNAT TRANSPULS 1500 MADE IN GERMANY .

16 bit vs 24 bit OK, so 192kHz music files make no sense. Covered, done. What about 16 bit vs. 24 bit audio? It's true that 16 bit linear PCM audio does not quite cover the entire theoretical dynamic range of the human ear in ideal conditions. Also, there are (and always will be) reasons to use more than 16 bits in recording and production. None of that is relevant to playback; here 24 bit audio is as useless as 192kHz sampling. The good news is that at least 24 bit depth doesn't harm fidelity. It just doesn't help, and also wastes space.

Big respect to you Ron. The last addition is notisable for sure. Keep it. Speakers are intresting delta in experience.

Some people are stocked în the past, technology evolved and room auto calibration it does a huge difference. B&O solved this long time ago. You like to play around moving your equipment and adjusting tone ballance be my guest but the latest auto calibration solutions are really remarkable especially in home cinema setups and this is a moust separating factor between brands this days.

I could hear differences between the 2 only in the bass seemingly below 100Hz. The Brute seems to rise below 100, and the Bully seems flatter and more linear even through the RU-vid system.

Based on this stream into my BOSE headphones + RED DRAGONFLY and what I heard for me: 1 - Gallion TS120 2 - F35 3 - ROGUE 4 - LTA If the recording was done in room with longer sound bouncing times then ROGUE would be the winner because it sounded more church listening space. LTA as if there would be too much absorption. F35 is tiny bit less smooth then Gallion. I assume your files exclude your room signature going direct to files? Or through microphone and room is part of it what heard? Personally I like less absorption and more diffusion - breathing space but ROGUE was over my threashold. I like what you do!! My system is as below and sadly I am not able to enjoy it due to extremely bad room accoustics of house. I am planning to bring it to great listening room and decide if building room for it is worth it. 4 separate beutifull gloss mahagony wooden enclosures (toroidal Txs and yes point wiring): * PRE-AMP: 4 x EC45PI-E + 2 x ECC83S * 2CH AMP: 4 x ECC82 * LEFT CH POWER AMP: 4 x PX 300B + 1 x ECC82 * RIGHT CH POWER AMP: 4 x PX 300B + 1 x ECC82 2 SPEAKERS each: 15" Nirvana single driver full range driver inside mahagony cabinets 600mm W x 600mm D x 1200mm H with 3 ports at the bottom

I lost it at the: wife left and shot the dog? Then, write a country song about fixing the EQ

Trippy listening with headphones. Cool!

This may sound like hate and it isn't intended as such. I do like both sets of these speakers BUT I think they do have their flaws as I will lay out. Because, I feel, the video is being unfairly positive or biased. It's saying only strengths without any negatives or context (like the supporting gear / room). It's too emotional of a review. Emotions do not offer enough logical foundation or reasoning. $3000/pair makes an interesting proposal but I can buy a heck of a subwoofer for $3k - which is basically these speakers crowning achievement. Wonder how much the power cost? And the room is specially designed and treated.. Those wire stabilizers humor me. Do the speakers not vibrate the wire? Did you ever mention the wattage necessary to power these?? Got on my Sennheiser HD600. Not sure I want to buy another speaker without a dedicated mid-range but these things do sound nice. I have 2 speakers without a dedicated mid-range (JBL and Klipsch) and they are good but I prefer a separate mid-range or two. These hit really low and I think that is what makes their wow-factor raise to another league, but I also think the mid-range might be lacking in areas. I could see the mids being spikey and lacking some refinement. I need more testing with more aggressive music that would present standing waves and peaks and dips. It's good with what you played. The bass is the most impressive - deep and controlled, but the mids seem they could be spikey, and the bass may make the mids a little muddy. Overly bassy speakers can get very old over time IF they lean towards a bass-heavy sound. It seems they do, but maybe they don't? That's not to call them bad, it's to say, I wouldn't run right out without more testing and buy them. There's a lot to think about. Like the room and the upline gear. This is the best they are going to sound- probably $100k room and $20k equipment with highest bitrate and I still hear some muddiness on a very linear / slightly bass-repressed set of headphones; meaning, if anything, the bass would present more muddiness and less detail in person.

Interesting that Ron is saying something that outshines GR Research. These speakers are either the real deal or Ron was paid 30 shekels of Jesus silver and given the potter's field. 😳