Paul from PS Audio is such a knowledgeable guy when it comes to everything audiophile related. I am so excited to hopefully listen to these speakers one day. Wow, incredible work! Cheers to you all and Happy holidays friends and sound family! :)
Paul has always been a low end sub guy, nice looking speaker! Not sure what some of you are listening to but 12 inch per side more than enough for me.Interesting controls to adjust the crossover I like they are not the size of a car! Would love to hear them and the stellar series.Wicked kick ass!
Congratulations on the release. I know it’s been a long road. I cannot afford these, and might never be able to afford them, but I’ll certainly give them a listen when I’m up your way again. I do own two Stellar Mono-block 700 amps, and my music has never sounded better. I thank you for the dedication to the craft, the science and the art that all go into your products. If only we could zap away the negative commentators who have never and will never listen to the products before they spout off about how poorly they perform compared to others. Hey social media companies, a basic real world knowledge of the product one is commenting upon would be nice. :)
Very nice looking and totally acceptable footprint for most living situations. I imagine that with the spirit of Arnie's standards as a benchmark plus the work of that smartass kid, these must sound amazing. The way the cabinets separate, is this system flexible enough to set up in a sub/sat arrangement?
Nice speakers! Actually the first (as far as I know) speakers that had placement adjustment potentiometer for the active ACE Bass was the Audio Pro A4-14.
Love the technology in this speaker with manual room correction along with specific designed amp's and speakers. Maybe in the future they will be wireless as well?
I don't think so (right now). By making them wireless you would probably lose quite a lot of detail. The audio data has to be compressed in order to make it work properly and as PS audio is a company for the "true" audiophiles, I don't see wireless speakers like this one from them in the near future.
The Woofer suspension looks like the type wharfedale used in the 1950s and 1960s and the rigid fill reminds me of the Kef B139. I tried a rigid fill with an 18 inch driver in 1975 but my materials were too heavy. What is the SPL these can produce? The speakers look like an audiophile's wet dream
i like that look a lot. being modular is also superb thinking. being active is always a great thing if you trust the company... there is no reason why a package like that wouldn't perform outstanding considering the price/quality. about integrated dsp controls for position optimization, with no listening device/mic used to read the listening room, i don't really care for that... the way i understand it, a speaker 3 ft from my wall is experiencing different nodes and anti-nodes than a speaker placed 3 ft from your wall. golden plated contact plates, nah... the front baffle is going to be a little more refined on the finished product i suspect, but im really excited about that coaxial-ribbon approach!
A tower speaker with a sub strapped to it! simple but effective! you need the sub power for music. When i turn off my subs the sound vanishes and my fronts have 12in drivers.
Looks great. Kef were doing very similar with the technology available at the time some 30 years ago with the 105.3 and kube 200. Midrange and tweeter strapped to the front of a 4ft sub. The kube extending the bass to 20khz and playing with room parameters. A most excellent involved listing experience. I'd love to hear these to compare. Kef assure me that 20.000 is what I'd need to spend to get anywhere near the 105's. So now myself and good friend are in the midst of setting up our own speaker making business.. mostly completely hand made by ourselves. Exciting times. There may be trouble ahead but while there's music...
I would much prefer to see the electronics packaged in a separate unit. There are all sorts of vibration failures that can occur when the amplifier shares a cabinet with the driver. How do I know? About eight repairs to a couple of powered subwoofers that I maintain at the local skating rink. In the end, I gave up and hung the amps up separately from the driver cabinet. No more mechanical-fatigue failures.
Just jumped here to see what have changed for last 10-15 years and boom...nice. But won't it be true if I will say such top-tech hi-end speakers are behind most of audio enthusiasts possibilities ?
Paul Paul Paul now please build a companion integrated WiFi streamer/DAC/amp with room correction for this!!! Don’t forget a modern take on a loudness control for those times when the neighbors are home.
Not an inexpensive speaker but there is plenty of high tech there to justify the price . You can spend a lot more and get far less . Definitely worth a listen if you are in the market . Let's see what Atkinson reports when he puts it to the test .
Given the technology and quality involved, a fair price. I own several PS Audio pieces, and I always thought I got a pretty good deal. I can’t say that for some of my other more foolish audio purchases.
I have always been confused trying to understand how a coaxial tweeter that covers 4" high x the full width of the 10" midrange ribbon behind it doesn't interfere with the radiation of the midrange driver itself.
it will :) especially because its a planar. the tweeter has interference , mostly from the reflection behind it. the midrange might already be down before it becomes a problem for him as well. Edit I do see its the closed neo3 so reflection might be less of a big deal.
These speakers are out of my price range. Even when I was working making a decent living, they are out of my price range. But I don't "hate" on Paul for coming out with them like a lot of people here. Are they expensive? for me, yes. For others, no. I see everyone here has had the opportunity to listen to them and compare them with other speakers out there. I can answer that.... not. These are proto types. Yet, everyone has an opinion based on.... nothing. "Oh, 12" sub it not big, those magnets are not 50lbs, I got a $1500 pair that sounds great, Legacy makes better speakers for less...." and no one has heard them. They might be trash, but I'll reserve that judgement when I actually hear them and not assume what they sound like by reading some spec sheet, or listening to the sound via RU-vid.....
Anthony Pierre I agree with you. Some people should really be prohibited from commenting. A little time spent with the product or service should be required.
It's typically best to do what everyone else is doing unless you have very good reasons not to. I'm not sure the reasons for this particular design have been properly fleshed out or explained. Physics don't change. There's reasons why I've never seen such a design as this. Could it work and be great, absolutely, but I'm skeptical and need to see how they test. The polar response and water fall response will tell a lot. As will the phase alignment results. I'm rooting for Paul and PS Audio, but I have my concerns.
i have easily gotten 2.5 inches from an alpine type x at 18 hz but it required around 1900 watts. if you really want 5 inches of excursion you need an orion hcca running at 3700 watts continuous
Well, the tweeter bridge is too big, it blocks too much of the midrange panel, like a third of it. This slightly offsets the advantage of coaxial mounting as does the position of the tweeter (a couple of inches in front of the midrange and mid-bass drivers). This will make time alignment issues that can be addressed with magic DSP voodoo in the internal electronic x-over. There isn't much that can be done about vertical off axis response as every single ribbon or electrostatic speaker I've seen has great horizontal and pool vertical dispersion, thus the tall panels of Magnapan, Martin Logan, Accustat etc... With the single tweeter and tall midrange ribbon I guess it could be ok if you're far enough back, I suppose these speakers are suitable for large rooms, so that would be a moot point, everyone's probably going to be 10 or 15 feet (or more) back from them. They seem to look pretty wild
Yup -- this one was a modified old Arnie Nudell design, the one that made it into production (in China, BTW) was designed from the ground up by Chris Brunhaver, who's a legitimately knowledgable young loudspeaker specialist.
I have the Paradigm Classic Monitor 11 v7 (floor standing). I have a stereo amp (125 watts/channel) working off a Marantz preamp. It has a metal dome tweeter in combination with a 5.25" mid, and the bottom of the speaker is three active 6.5" woofers. I don't even use a subwoofer because the bass is so powerful. I paid $1500/pair in a cherry laminate finish and it suits all my needs. Buying $10,000 speakers of any make just doesn't seem necessary. If I desire I can remove the strap and use two separate stereo amps, but I don't need that.
I guess you haven't heard and compared many speakers. Glad you are happy with what you have. But to say spending more is not necessary is wrong. You say the bass is powerful... how deep and accurate does it go? Here, let me help you according to Paradigm website: ±2dB from 42 Hz - 18 kHz You might consider 42Hz (I'd love to see the graph though) powerful, but not many others out there. Especially if your recordings go below that. Maybe yours don't, but mine and many others do. The lowest frequency on a piano is 27.5 Hz.
That wall adjustment is awesome. I have a depth issue in my living room. When I first got my speakers I could put them anywhere I wanted. But when the kids came along those heavy 2 way speakers sitting on their stands was a problem if my kids pulled them over on themselves, so we putbaby fences in front of them, and moved them a foot away from the wall. No my kids are grown, but they have kittens that will climb on anything. So the baby fences are still there. Maybe some day I’ll be rid of the cats, but don’t let my wife hear that!
Nice speakers but you want to much. Just got my new Focus SE and will stay with them. I do however like how they are modular in design. I like that for many reasons. And they also look very nice! But the proof is in the sound because really to me all else means zero.
