If you just needed or even wanted the center channel, this is IT! The last scene played gave me chills! It plays as if it fills the entire frontstage ALONE! 😁😁😁
As a native Wisconsinite I am proud but also moderately perplexed by the fact that 2 of the most popular speakers companies on home theater RU-vid channels (Perlisten and JTR) are both from based in Wisconsin. I guess it make sense being that this state is a frozen wasteland for 4 to 6 months every year so staing inside and watching movies and listening to music is a preferable option over dong things outdoors during those months.
I absolutely love that checkerboard pattern. These are likely endgame for many folks. Shockingly, I could easily tell the difference between these and the focals you demo’d. What a set. I’m super interested in their new in wall collection too.
The checkerboard pattern woofers are made by SB Acoustics. Engineered in Denmark. Lars Johansen from Perlisten is also danish. He used to work for M&K Sound
It's always another company around the corner, when it comes to home theater. It's an Expensive hobby. We upgrade to upgrade to upgrade, and then we change everything to start over again.
Nice to hear someone else talking about the importance of the centre channel! I totally agree. Love the lighting you use in your theatre room for the videos, by the way. Very classy. 👍🏻☺️
Seems like a very nice setup theese Perlistens 😊 I do run all my speakers in large btw, with 3 subs on top of that. I do have 3 towers LCR, and a tower as centee rear. They are all fullrange. Sidesurrounds and heightchannels only play well down to about 45hz, but since I have subs in addition on all channels, it works really well. 😊
I'm not the biggest fan of the checkerboard pattern but it's good to see your $ is actually going towards aesthetics and build quality. No "bed liner" finish in sight. Looks like first-rate performance and worth saving your spare change for.
The checkerboard pattern is not actually for aesthetics and not a perlisten limited technology. It's textreme, which is basically just carbon fiber but the pattern helps to distribute the breakup modes.
Lets all hope these are bought by lots of people and then Perlisten can create a more affordable version with some of the same technology they're using to make them so good. I will certainly be buying them if they do so, as many others would I imagine.
My setup doesn’t approach the price of the Perlisten. But I do have a comment on crossovers. I have Polk R700 fronts, L400 center, R200 rear surrounds, and an SVS SB-1000 in a 5.1. I’m running the LCR off Emotiva HC-1 monoblocks and the surrounds off of the TX-RZ50 AVR. I like to watch movies at reference volume fairly often. I have found that I prefer running the fronts full range and crossing the center and surrounds at 40. The speakers have a lot of bass to contribute and I enjoy bass coming from the rear speakers. According to my DIRAC measurements the fronts have an in-room response all the way to 23Hz. I don’t see a reason to give that up by setting them to small. Especially since “double bass” is an option on my AVR so I don’t lose the sub’s help.
I had heard the Perlisten setup at the Tampa Audio show and they were easily in the top 5 best of the show. Borreson, TAD, Raidho, Focal, and Perlisten were the top five in descending order in my opinion at the show. Martin Logan and Bowers weren't there to add to the list.
These look pretty awesome, though I've never been impressed with a horizontally-oriented design for a center channel. Reason being is that it collapses the sound stage a bit. Yes the tweeter and mid range are right in the middle, but the woofers extend quite far from the actual center. I don't care what anyone says, bass is directional. Sadly not everyone can have a vertically-oriented center channel... just one of those bad things about being in a home rather than a real theater I guess. You could always go the old AMC TORUS/HITS route and have the tweeter and midrange at the top of your screen and the woofers at the bottom. Actually I don't recommend anyone try to replicate anything AMC does at home... but with a smaller home screen it might not be so awful. Of course ideally everything would be behind the screen. And yes I run everything full range here. Again bass is directional. Home THX can get fukt, cinema THX specs are where it's at.
I’m just starting to learn about speakers and placement etc. Can you provide a link to any website that shows info/ graphs of the sound being squeezed if a center channel is horizontal (vs vertical if possible). Thanks!
@@rogerhalt3991 google MTM center channel configuration issues ... in short, human hearing is very sensitive in horizontal plane and not so in vertical plane.. thats why MTM design can be pretty bad in horizontal usage and not a problem in vertical usage..
@@rogerhalt3991 I have no graphs, but think of it this way: if the Left, Center, and Right speakers are all playing the same sound simultaneously (like the OG Lion King Blu-ray from a while back) the sounds don't appear exactly from the center, especially if you're not sitting directly in the center. Now a sound bar wouldn't be this bad and like I said at least the treble and the mid range are directly in the center, but having the woofers out so wide would alter it a little. Oriented vertically, everything is perfectly in the center.
Martin Logan = MoneyLaundering Youre getting ripped off for a brand name my friend.Quite a few comparable speaker brands out there for FAR less cheddar
I know they're extremely new, but is there any chance you will be able to compare these to the slightly less expensive R7t line? This setup you're showing here costs more than a new car and is out of reach for 99% of people. That said, I'd really like to hear them in person to see if they actually sound 5x better than a $1500 speaker.
@@lukerestlessstudios I got the Arendal 1723s monitor surround set because of Shane lol. They’re in my eyes the best speaker out there for the price. I’m sure the Perlistens are amazing! I’ll get the Trinnov altitude and perliston in my next set up. Right now I’m completely blown away by the xmc-2, Dr3, XPA 11 and my 2 PB3000 subs plus 4 Atmos SVS ceiling speakers. It sounds better than my local cinema especially after running dirac. Watching 2012, Fury, 300, avengers movies has been such a treat. It’s like watching them all over again at the cinema. The Arendals and Xmc-2 are just amazing
@@zbigniewkrol3899 Technology doesn't ever stand still........ The Perlisten S series is truly reference! But future Perlisten flagship series can still potentially be even better. Replace the MDF cabinet with a better stronger HDF or Valchromat cabinet. Use the second generation recently released Textreme Metamodal TX woofers. Even the tweeter could use the Textreme Metamodal TX as it's better performance and cheaper than a beryllium tweeter. Ex Machina a fairly new New York company are getting hype like Perlisten but for active studio monitors. There second generation Pulsar MKII & Quasar MKII use valchromat cabinets. And the new second generation Textreme Metamodal TX for their coaxial mid range and tweeter.
Smart to make a make a soundbar sized center but these are expensive. It's interesting how the surrounds are practically baby-sized showing how It's $30k for the LCR. I'd love to see what the music sounds like - is it theater style (loud but meh) or is it actually engaging and moving?
Cost of them is ridiculous though. Not worth that much in my opinion. I could get bookshelves paired with separate sub each and be cheaper and much better.
I know you wanted to compare the S7c to something....but not a fair comparison to the Kanta. The Perlisten is nearly double everything. Price, weight, driver config. Plus it is sealed versus ported. Kudos to Perlisten for that but it comes at a hefty price. The Kanta will distort more because of the bass reflex design. This is elementary.
@@pulDag they wouldn't be around for as long as they've been around and they wouldn't have people buying their thousands of dollars speakers if they were just good looking
@@ryanschipp8513 it is so called high end / marketing. There are only few audiophiles buying so expensive equipment. The main group of buyers want something excellent looking. Ofcourse it must sound good, but for their untrained ears everything sounds better than what they are used to. Thats why everybody buys b&w and McIntosh eventhough there are always better alternatives for the price. Not saying all the Focals are shait, but for their price are average or sub-par. Look at their subwoofers.. my 2c
Do the Martin Logan folded motion tweeter sound come close to a beryllium tweeters? I remember awhile back when you reviewed the ML Motion series the FMT blew you away.
I work in the industry and have heard most things. After years of listening I’m not all that impressed with most AMT tweeters. I still prefer good domes. Especially beryllium and even some soft domes. The one exception to this is true planar drivers such as used by Wisdom Audio. Though I will say the AMTs used by Monitor Audio or Eikon for example are pretty good.
@@therealshanelee I wish you can find a space in your HT to test it. As I cannot find any Illusion center channel review. And I am quite sure if you ask Martin Logan, they will send you one for review. And I know Martin Logan is one of your fav speaker 😀.
Always run full range. In your set up I would set the rears to small (80hz crossover) and leave the fronts and centre on full range. For me I run my fronts with high level support from my Rel sub. Not that they need much!! Centre and Rears full range with no support.
I have a complete Arendal setup they are amazing these are 5 x the price with probably 2x the performance but you'll need to have the amps to drive these to their full potential. Amazing speakers but my wallet would never forgive me. Arendal are more then enough the 1723 series are amazing and they won't break the bank for what they are capable of. I bought last year before the price increase but still worth it as every other brand got a 15 percent increase with the inflation across the world
@@taxi615 I have the Arendals as well and absolutely love them. Since they were both designed by the same person I was just wondering how they compare. Cheers 🍻
@@themorg3300 I also have the Arendal 1723s monitors for front stage, 1723s surrounds, 4 ceiling SVS heights, 1 pB 3000, XLA DR3 for front stage, XLA 200 for surrounds, fosi mini amps for heights, emotiva XMC-2 for processing and a Vava 4k 150’ screen. I’m soo happy with my set up. The XMC-2 was way better than the previous Denon 4700 in pre amp mode and the previous Marantz 7706 I was testing out. I also have 6 Gik accoustic panels in my set up and everything sounds like an actual theater. I have a dedicated theater room which me and my fiancée enjoy. This hobby gets to be up there in price and when my bitcoins hit $150k, I’ll sell a couple and buy this perlisten system with the Trinov. Shane’s content made me buy all my gear lol. Now I have GOALS 🙏🏽😊
Maybe, but you'd be crazy not to go with whatever sounds best rather than choosing based on looks, especially for home theatre where you shouldn't even see the speakers.
@@rosstee I hear you I like looks and sound for me perlisten wouldn't make it in my house even if it sounds better than sopra , I will go for sonas Farber or Wilson Audio in that price range
@@jm-vq4cm when you step up to a certain level of quality sound and build, you’ll get why it’s priced as such. There’s plenty folks that find the value in products at this level.
