There are a lot of so called audio experts out there but you clearly know your business and it's always a pleasure to listen to your take on the equipment presented and improvements that can be made. Good review as always.
Did not know you was into racing also! I love that resonating sound!!! Two-stroke dirt bikes and old muscle cars give me chill bumps like nothing else. Wish I still had my 1976 Honda CR125 Elsinore and 1963 Galaxie 500 Ford Fastback with high performance police interceptor 390 4 Barrel 4 speed dual exhaust.
Sandy did a very good design on these speakers... I have been impressed with GoldenEar since they debuted. Btw for me in the GE series, the Triton One towers are the best bang for buck.
I have been impressed with Golden Ear since I first heard them and looked at the BRX before. I just didn't have the budget for them. That might be changing soon, so if you are able to put a kit together I would be interested in that as well.
This is one of the most positive reviews that I've seen you do!!! Every time I watch RU-vid reviews featuring these speakers, I continue to be BLOWN AWAY!!!! The HUGE and detailed soundstage and the amount of deep, powerful, and defined bass really speaks to me(I'm a bass player). Based on your review, I'm putting this speaker back at the top of my list!!! I've subscribed to your channel and will be watching a lot more of your videos to learn from your expert expose's and reviews!
For years I had a pair of Definitive BP-4B's. The description of this speakers rings lots of bells. I found it boomy but it improved greatly just replacing the resistors with 1% wirewound and Zen caps. Everything else was great. Sandy Gross has always been able to squeeze a tremendous amount of value into a speaker.
The price difference between a sandcast resistor and a quality mills resistor cannot possibly jack the price that high! SO true though Danny, I got started motorcycling last summer on my little CB250, in no time at all I found myself upgrading the sprockets, intake, spark plugs, and this summer I fitted her with a big bore kit!
@@knobbshots Yeah something simple & silly for the learning experience. Youd be surprised how much more performance is left in these peanut motors untapped. Aint a sport bike of course, but no slouch anymore either!
Love this channel and my hat is off to you as an engineer. I am always perplexed by your generosity in doing work without a minimum fee. Writing emails, analysing speakers, measuring etc as a free service. It's all work. I don't know if any tech out there doesn't charge a 'bench fee'. In this instance, with these speakers, who's to say it's not just been sent in by the designer himself, or the distributor etc. Surely you should have withheld any information until the customer identified themselves?
Hi Danny! I really enjoy your channel, thanks! Have you ever looked inside a pair of Monitor Audio Gold speakers? I have the 4G model and I sometimes find them a bit bright. Is there anything that could be done by that? Living in Sweden I guess I can’t send them to you, but I still want to know so I can decide on keeping then or buying Golden Ear floorstanders for example. Kind regards, Sten
Dollar for dollar I feel GoldenEar speakers probably offer some of the most accurate and quality products out there, not to mention that Sandy Gross is a legend in his own right. Good honest review as always.
I think you may have found, to continue the hot-rodding metaphor, the LS engine of monitor speakers. Really good from the factory with lots of potential waiting to be tapped.
It seems most everyone that encounters this Golden Ear two-way really likes the design choices made. I've never had the opportunity to really experience them.
I have heard some of the golden ear towers and thought they were anemic in sound. Really liked the focal 1028 be over the golden ear I was listening to. I don't know if that is because I was at the store and the focal was bass heavy where the balance might be better with the golden ear at home... It's difficult to say what it was but the focal sounded a lot better. Sound stage and all the focal was a huge improvement. I keep mentioning at the store because it was a huge wide open area.
@@theoracleprodigy Nice! Fascinating observation. You're right, "anemic" or dimensional soundstage characteristic... either could be heavily dependent on the demo environment... or perhaps not... gotta go with your impression.
@@FOH3663 sort of ironic seeing this comment again. I really loved the focals so much so I started looking for a used pair. I ran into the 1038 be on audiogon for a steal. Ended up buying them and love the balance of them. Everything is there but honestly not a bass heavy speaker.
I have the triton 5 in my family room. They are really good. If you like the sound of the Polk Audio speakers he designed, these are way better and you would have to spend a lot more with other brands to get the same presence and fidelity.
@@bbarnett7667 Triton 5... nice! Simple, well executed, little D'Appolito two-way... cool. I believe Sandy Gross stepped down and sold to Audioquest's Bill Low.
Everything you're saying about that heavier cone woofer is the exact reason that I much prefer 3 way speakers. No one speaker is ever too busy in a 3 way and it's just cleaner sounding. And too I'm a big fan of resonators in an otherwise sealed enclosure. You get all the bass and none of that horrid port noise! Cheers 🍻.
Personally I would spend some time with the speakers first. How can you appreciate the upgrade if you haven't burned them in yet? Another great video Danny.
@@tomkershaw4384: True, there is definitely a difference between brand new and 500 hrs of use in terms of sound reproduction. Some things get a lot worse after they're broken in, others improve quite a bit. I still don't think that a well burned in 2-way will ever truly compete with a well designed 3-way in any use state condition. I could be wrong of coarse, but that's just my opinion. Cheers 🍻.
@@Finite-Tuning all comes down to the crossover. Many people swear by the single driver because of the lack of a crossover network (I am not one of them) but building 3, 3.5, or 4 way speakers takes a lot of getting right. I am fortunate to be using an active system which gives me the flexibility to get it right, but that is a lot harder when using hard parts.
I’ve had my GE Triton Two’s going on 7 years and they have been wonderful. Even better is there service. I had an issue with the crossover in one, called them and they replaced both for free, even after 7 years. I can’t say enough about the bang for the buck and quality of service from this great company!
Large inductor doing double duty as woofer 1st order LP and baffle step compensation? May be the culprit for the around 400Hz dip unless that is the limit of your gated measurement.
So happy to see this! I just got the triton one.r. My room is the biggest issue but I’m using Dirac now. The second issue I think is the mid range not being quick enough, but I’m comparing to tekton Moab. The tweeters are great.
Yes there's no finesse to the sound. I always hoped an upgraded crossover would be the ticket but now I'm wondering if it's just the thickness of the cone 🤔
@@mcbowler it's goldenears. The further apart you get them the bigger the soundstage. But get them too close and you'll get bass bloat. Do what you gotta do to make the bass right but always always always point goldenears directly at your ears. It's how they were made. If you do that they will almost be like wearing a pair of closed back headphones but with huge sound
Sandy Gross. Proud owner of BP-7001 BP7002 BP7006 CLR2002 Studio Monitors 450's & 350's ummmmm yeahhh! 15 years in and still kicking ass! Paired with Marantz SR7013 w/ Emotiva Next Gen 5
Hi GR-Research May we know ? Any Great Low Base 100uf Cap on market is very good for Low base Speaker use ! Can u recommend ! Pls advise can. Any 100uf Copper Foil cap u can recommend !........../
Talking about the grill... I used to have a Linn Nexus, and the grill is just a BIG shower cap made of grill cloth... Nothing stiff whatsoever. I literally laughed out loud when i found that our...
I have been looking at so many of your videos. Thank you. Is there any brand that is worth buying? Each video seems to show that they are worth $20 and that is it. I saw the ATC video seem to like those but nothing seems to be worth anything. Troubling.
They must be mine. I, of course, have lost all indicators, documents, and other ownership assurances, so just take my word. I have a (nearly) honest face.
I've come close a couple times to buying these speakers and you have just made it much harder to resist the urge to pull the trigger. For their sake I hope they have a good number in stock as I suspect they will be seeing a bump in sales. ;-) A side note for those who may not have heard yet is that Sandy Gross has stepped away from Golden Ear to enjoy life.
Except for Boston Acoustics home grown Kortec tweeter being sub’d for an AMT and using side passive radiators instead of a large, high-mounted rear port, everything about this pair of speakers looks like a mid 90s Boston Acoustics CR7 speaker. The choice of materials for the woofer, the metal grill; even the ledge on the base. I have a pair of every CR series speaker made then, and use them to this day: CR5, CR6, CR7, CR8s, and CR9s. The CR9s are one of the best sounding pairs of stand mount speakers I have ever heard, at any price range, from any decade. They are also the founder and owner of Boston acoustics favorite pair of speakers that they ever made… And I completely agree. Maybe the guy that engineered these used to work for them? The 80s and 90s Boston Acoustics are some of the best affordable commercial speakers ever made, IMHO.
@@hlurpseed Well, if he is laughing at your comment why I think he is, it's because there is nothing the same about those speakers. The 2 main differences which you mentioned are enough to set the speakers apart by miles but then there are other differences (including looks) that come into play and quite frankly I am confused why you would compare them.
@@The_Story_Channel I suppose you’re right, except that Kortec tweeters only exist now on the secondhand market, whereas AMTs are off the shelf, and the use of a semi open baffle I wouldn’t call an earth shattering difference. Outside of that? Yeah, no comparison.
Danny, for all the guys commenting less than 100% positive about "dark" etc., Know that I appreciate the progress you have made with your videos to date. From where you were to where you are..... You should be happy. I am! Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos!!!
I'd like to see you check out a pair of ESS speakers with the original full size HEIL AMT driver. The big HEIL is in a whole different league. I'd love to see a kit available for the ESS AMT 1B pyramids.
Great stuff Danny. Idea a 5-6 minuet video on how to make those in-line filters for true bi-amping. You touch on that last week and I am wanting to give that a shot. Take care
I know Ron from NewRecordDay currently has my pair of of X-Statiks, and Danny does have plans for an X-Statik build of his own, he's currently waiting on some special raw materials to make custom front baffles
Golden Ear is in high end territory if it wasn't any good people got ripped off hard :D I myself has not seen a speaker from them that cost less than my car.
if it were me , making time to deal with sending it in & all that. i would put the X over out side the box . Also i would expect after the work with the X Over that damn Speaker should sound like a $5000++. If not don't waist time with it
One of the things that a self-appointed expert has to be careful about is to mention specific factual content that doesn't jibe very well with the truth on the ground. In this case, and I've been watching a lot of Danny's videos trying to decide whether I love him or despise him, but in this case, the assertion that most tweeters cross over at 1500 Hz is utter nonsense. Amphion is known industry wide for an *exceptionally* low crossover frequency, and it's 1,800 in the Argon 1.
OK, been into home theater for decades. This is what people really want, a high quality wireless system. Wives hate big speakers and cables all over the living space. They just want a wireless 5.2 to 9.2 system that looks clean. Sony is starting this process it seems.
You have absolutely no idea how bad I've wanted you to do a goldenear. I have a hunch that with a maxed out crossover they can be a cheap man's wilson. Only reason I got rid of mine was lack of finesse which may be because of the thicker cone material. Wonder if the bigger speakers have thinner cones
@@dannyrichie9743 what I love about the new Wilson's is their beautiful black background and the amazing imaging and how much you hear the gear and not the speakers. generally i find sealed cabinets to have a black background and open to not. What would you recommend of yours with these traits?
You might be surprised how close the correlation is, especially with speakers. But it takes a lot of experience to learn what you like and how it measures too.
I would be REALLY surprised if Sandy designs any speaker at Golden Ear. It's more likely he has designers/engineers working under him, but I could be wrong.
I suspect that if one bought the Golden Ear Triiton Reference and have you apply whatever crossover treatment necessary it would embarrass most $30,000 pretenders.
