I recently wrote about quick objective evaluations of speakers based on simple observations in my 'What I learned from ASR' thread.
A quick review
5. Speakers with good dispersion are preferred by most people. This finding was confirmed by Floyd Toole's research at NRC and Harman. The question is then how to get the best dispersion?
a. Waveguides to optimize horizontal dispersion.
b. Coaxial speakers with the tweeter inside the bass/midrange so that the speaker essentially become a point source. Along those lines non coaxial speakers should place drivers as close as possible to approach a point source.
c. Three way or four way to reduce beaming (narrowing dispersion as the driver reaches its upper limit).
There is no waveguide or attempt to put drivers closer together to improve dispersion.
There is a 7 inch woofer matched to a 1 inch tweeter which likely indicates that the woofer is likely to start beaming at the crossover to the tweeter creating a discontinuity in the directivity index.
Speaking of crossovers where the heck is it? There literature makes on reference to it. Instead it refers to
Acoustic Reality Series Crossovers, series crossover without any capacitors or resistors in the circuit with the tweeter, a web archived page that as illustrated shows 3 inductors and one resistor (yes a resistor although it may not be in circuit with the tweeter). I'm not an electronics experts but I would say it is. Again based on my limited knowledge of electrical circuit theory what is protecting the tweeter from destruction from low frequency signals if it doesn't use capacitors. It also seems like that if this is such a great crossover and the designers are making it available at no cost, wouldn't all the speakers manufacturers be using this simple low cost crossover.
Other issues are the square box which isn't likely reduce internal ringing. The speaker is ported-apparently in back, but the webpage doesn't show it. Ports are often tapered and have mods to reduce chuffing and other issues.
This also brings up that this is a bad webpage. There's a dead link to their main page. When I did discover the main page, it refers one to a series of ecstatic reviews from such objective sources as Absolute Sound. They do show a series of charts of phase and impedance for their different speakers. A casual glance such as I made would make one think that the phase was actually instead a flat frequency response.
In conclusion it appears to be a couple of high quality drivers put into a pretty box at a high price ($2750 online special). It might make a good takedown review of an overpriced speaker (at least IMO) and it's certainly possible it sounds decent as a nearfield speaker although it is rather large for that purpose.