This MIGHT Surprise You! Perlisten R7T AND S7T Review! 

Your RF7iii under DSP has the same capability.

Welcome aboard!

also .. I love the 4 towers and your cinematography shot across the frame like this .. black background.. Really good stuff, Ron.

Yes. The R series is voiced very similarly. I actually prefer the R series to the S.

Nope, just changed up the background a little.

Thanks for stopping by Jon! appreciate it!

I’m in the market for this and I’m considering LCRs of Revel 328be/ Paradigm Person 5F/ Wharfdale Elysian/ b&W 804s. All within the same price range of the Perlisten. Can’t go wrong with any…the question is which sound signature do I like!?

IMO a good speaker is a good speaker . If it lacks dynamics- it’s not a good speaker and it will Compromise both HT and 2ch listening . It is really strange that you mention details and resolution lacking in these speakers . I have compered them to many higher priced hi fi speakers and they either compete or surpass . All the best

@@Novilicious I’m also looking at the Wharfedale Elysians, and they’re quite a bit cheaper than the top of the line Perlistens. My observation is around $5k per speaker is the sweet spot: you can pay more but the returns diminish significantly after that point.

@@Novilicious Paradigm Persona 5F are my preference for two channel audio with my music (mostly acoustic and live). Th Revel 328be are my least favorite on the choices you present. Best to you on your pursuit.

@@healthynutster I was thinking the same thing!

Do you mind me asking the size of your room and partnering gear. This is the model I am considering. Thanks

It’s the same brand and woofers. Probably minimally changed.

Danley Sound Labs.

Danley Sound Labs. Better performance, half the cost. Look at the SM-series. They will also veneer or paint to suite your taste.

Loved it from the companion ❤❤❤❤

True love for music lovers from elac never miss one 😂😂😂

If I may being that I’ve heard both extensively, the Polk should not even be in this conversation. The S7T is special, and I say that as someone who’s heard almost everything being talked about here. Including hearing $55,000 Sonus fabers almost everyday. Now that said I do find Polks to be very overrated speakers in general, and I really can’t stand them, so read whatever bias into that you will. For example in the under $3k price tier the Polk R700 gets absolutely devastated by the Sonus faber Lumina V, like it’s so bad you almost feel bad laughing.

@@lukerestlessstudios LMAO you posted the same garbage about Polk on another video just yesterday.

@@peternemeth4947 yeah because it’s true. I don’t like seeing people deceived even if unintentionally into spending their hard earned money on inferior products. There are vastly superior speakers available for those looking to spend less than $3k. Sonus faber, Totem Acoustic, Tekton, Buchardt, Monitor Audio, Q Acoustics, and more. The fact the Polk gets almost $2,500 for a product that looks like, feels like, and sounds like it was made out of recycled water bottles is just absurd. The ont thing I’ll give it is that it is better than previous Polks, but it is inferior to almost everything else at its price point in more ways than one. I do this for a living. Not one of my company’s employees all of which are hi-fi enthusiasts themselves liked or recommended the Polk after it was put out in our showrooms, and they didn’t sell almost at all, our clients were not interested. Monitor Audio, a little bit of Totem Acoustic, and especially Sonus faber have been doing very well at those price points with our clients however and for good reason. Those are great value products. Look, I love Ron and his channel and the other guys on here too. Talking about hi-fi and stuff and trying to provide good reviews is great, and 9/10 guys like him are right on the money. Sometimes though even if rarely they just don’t have the whole story or they haven’t seen the whole picture because they aren’t surrounded by all of these products at the same time everyday. They get stuff in, review it, and have to try to go on memory for comparisons more often than not, and we have research showing that our memory for nuances in audio exactly like what we get with different speakers is not exactly superb. I’m not claiming to be better than any of these gentlemen on RU-vid, I think they are awesome. But, I do get to side by side A to B this stuff almost everyday or whenever I want, and that’s when you really find out what’s good for said price or purpose/application.

@@lukerestlessstudios I agree, I can't stand the sound (no mids) of polks either..

This particular system reminds me a lot of what I am hearing with the R7T’s. X-LS Review | Sound Clips with Commentary ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--LvuYjlsMH0.html

Danley Sound Labs. SM-series

The Polks should be booted off the list. Extremely overrated and forgettable. Sold maybe one pair whereas Sonus faber Lumina Vs are practically sprinting out the door like crazed zombies and for good reason.

@@lukerestlessstudios The Polks have had positive reviews from everyone. The Luminas seem to be excellent speakers. I haven't heard them side-by-side but I have a feeling you believe the Lumina V is far better than the Pork R700. Is that correct?

@@techsamurai11 Precisely. The Polks have such reviews because those reviews are bought. They aren’t anything special and frankly neither is almost anything Polk makes. It’s a Best Buy speaker for a reason.

@@lukerestlessstudios It’s hard to believe that everyone who has reviewed the R series including the R700, R600, and R200 simply were providing false information. The way they’ve been reviewed reminds me of old B&W speakers and unsurprisingly I discovered that there’s a connection now between Polk and B&W through Price United. I would not be surprised if the R700 was made to match the old B&W 703 at half the price.

@@techsamurai11 not false information just over hype and fanfare, marketing if you will. They are better than previous Polks and if that’s what you are coming from you’ll be impressed. However if you leave the local Best Buy, go to a hi-go shop and listen to genuine hi-fi brands like Sonus faber, Totem Acoustic, Q Acoustic, Monitor Audio, etc… all of them outclass the Polk at their own price point, and in my opinion the Sonus fabers for example outright devastate them and not just in sound but in design, attractiveness, material quality, and build quality.

I haven’t heard a revel that is even close to the perlistens yet.

@@Newrecordday2013 wow

I’m with Ron. I work in the industry and I’ve heard almost everything. I heard the Perlisten S7Ts with their subs at a show and bought them over everything else my employer carries even though we didn’t after a couple months of preparing my wallet lol. Including the Revels. That’s how amazing they were. First thing to do completely “wow!” me in a long time. Also I do actually think they are worth it over the R7T myself. However kudos to the R series for being the closet performing little brother for the most savings possibly ever.

The older 215s are better, XLS is basically a PA speaker

Those speakers are crap, the only thing they do Well is to play extreamly loud, but what good does it mean if the speakers sound like dogshit

Crap? Just depends on what attributes you value, ie., where you are on your particular audio journey. I've been at this since the 70's... I clearly remembering I valued power, dynamics over everything else. I bought a pair of Cerwin Vega D-5 (12" 3-way, still own them today... although they've been stacked in storage in the garage for about 35yrs). Set up right, they served me well.

@@FOH3663 older cw might have been better but both cls and xls series sounds like crap, sure if you value to play really loud and don’t care about sound quality sure they do their job, but for me it would be fun for 5 minutes and then i would get tired on them, i just don’t value high spl in speakers that don’t have good sound quality, but in terms of the speakers that video is about is much more intresting, they play very loud and still does not sacrifice sound quality to get there, but it comes at a higher price, but i rather pay that then live with crappy sounding speaker with no details or any good sq

@@andreasmoller9798 All valid points. It's a juggling act of priorities addressing one's audio goals. Realistic imaging, realistic output, realistic tonal balance, realistic dynamics. It's no secret most place tonal balance at the top... for good reason. However it's worth noting high output/high sensitivity designs aren't a one trick pony... It's my experience such designs are strong performers at lower levels, late night levels. With the Equal Loudness Contours being what they are, the resulting spectral change can truly shine mated to a robust, elevated bass, dynamic, scooped response type design. Just pointing out, ... loudspeakers with high-sensitivity/high-output, that attribute is not simply for high SPL playback, at low levels such a platform can be fantastic.

What gave it away, the gorgeous wood veneer?😮

@@techsamurai11 LOL

Oi what are you doing here this isn't cheap audio! ;-)

Nigh perfect. Granted this is just my opinion just as Ron’s is his. If you have the coin I can tell you that the S7T really is worth it over the R7T. Now that being said. The R7T might be one of the best silver medalist/little brother speakers ever if not the singular best itself. It is killer value. Absolutely.

@@RennieAsh I still watch my buddy’s videos. This video was perfection with the opinions and data.

When you compare speakers from memory it’s a flaw.

@@gabis1963 I figured he took notes but if you're going to be that nitpicky, technically any human opinion is inherently flawed.

more importantly..HOW do you buy these? Ive seen no online distribution and have never seen them on demo here in dallas.

Dealers. Lookup dealers on their website.

And then Andrew Robinson goes and says the Polk R700s are 90% as good as the Elysians for a mere $2k a pair. So where do you draw the line? When is it worth spending more money?

@@hobblyjig It depends on how close to the state of the art you want to go. Robinson said the Elysians were as good as anything he’d ever had, and the Polks were 90% as good (though I would have preferred a volume matched side by side comparison to verify this rather than rely on audio memory)

I’ve worked in the hi-fi industry for years. Diminishing returns is definitely a thing. However a $2,000 Polk does not even get to look at an R7T let alone sit in the same room as it. My employer had Polk R700 on display in three diffeeent showrooms for over a year. We just took them down. Why? They suck ass and no one bought them. All of us here are enthusiasts, none of us liked them at all. But you know what sold a ton for almost the same price, and many of us bought ourselves? The Sonus faber Lumina V. Excellent speaker for under three grand, but again doesn’t roll with the $11k+ Olympica Nova also by them or the R7T, etc… “You get what you pay for” is still true as well as least to enough of an extent to matter so long as the product was found to be genuinely competitive and compelling at said price point.

The Elysians are the same price as the R7t ($10k a pair) and I haven't found any measurements of the former's off-axis performance, while the off-axis performance of the Perlistens are world class. Given the designs the Perlistens are also likely to play better in a greater variety of rooms. They have the sensitivity, power handling, and size to fill a large space (as do the Elysians), but the driver arrangement will allow them to cohere at a much closer range.

@@hobblyjigr11 metas

I'm guessing he means he's not hearing any artifacts or distortion between notes. There are plenty of slower, quieter passages in classical music with a few instruments playing.

Except the C8 Z06 is better than most Ferraris. C8R too at the track. Do you want performance and looks or rarity and a nameplate?