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Great point. I have the 12" Monolith which is far from the biggest here, but it's an absolute pain to lug around. 50kg, sticky feet and nowhere to grab onto. They should put handles on these things.

I don't think small subs make much sense with either of those speakers. How much speace do you have? 5500€ is a good price for a pair of 228 Be, I haven't heard then, but if you have the center anyway it's probably a sensible decision. Amir measured both 328 and 228, they are very similar with...

Right, thanks for the reminder. I use EqualizerAPO daily with the REW-made curve, but apparently they don't want money, at least I can't seem to find a way to send them some too. I've certainly spent more money on less useful things :)

Pretty middling performance with that crossover issue and directivity mismatch, but for the money they look really good.

The ME 901K seem to be the same speaker with slightly different housing while the ME 901K1 are the same with an external amp. This retailer lists some prices in case anyone is interested: https://cba-audio.de/collections/geithain @drdredd Mind sharing what you were quoted by the retails you...

The RL 901K have increased only about 2000€/pair (14%) over the last 18 years (2006 to 2024), all of that over the last four years. That's actually considerably lower than inflation of 55% in Germany over that 18 year time frame and still only about half the inflation rate over the last four...

Shouldn't be too hard actually, they're located only about a 75 minute drive from Klippel. They're ... slightly more expensive. Here's a size comparison between a few speakers...

It‘s not so much about performance (although that‘s objectively pretty bad), it‘s more that their specifications are blatantly false, it‘s not even close.

True, but it isn‘t 1985 anymore, they’re not that rare. I would like a low gain amp to match with my RME and its 24dBu output level. Not this amp in particular, it‘s one of the weaker implementations.

More like running away from the speakers :) It can't be so hard to make decent multimedia speakers. The production volumes are large so development cost per unit isn't too high even when engineering something not broken.

British food, so I guess we're staying with the theme :) Seriously though, at those prices people don't buy these things for their performance, how good or bad it is doesn't matter. But again, same thing as with Tekton, the product did reasonably well (although it clearly has some circuit...

I mean, he is providing high-quality measurements, so I just ignore the subjective part. Your printers suck ... oh wait, the other one :)

KEF R5 (first gen) on small stands with a Monolith 12" THX Ultra driven by a SMSL DA-9. It's a bit of a weird desktop setup born out of my former living room setup, but it works quite well. I use it for general listening. If you are sitting closer than 2m or so in a variable position coaxials...

Not too bad, but the KEF Blade are significantly better for a fraction of the price … which is a weird thing to say.

I have a pair of 65 Evo's and have heard the first gen Alpha 65 and 80 in direct comparison, but never heard the 80 Evo, so take this with a grain of salt. The 65 Evo are quite good, they can play loud enough to fill a room and the self-noise is very low. The 14kHz peak can be tuned down with...

Now if Nubert ever discovered this new waveguide technology all the kids are using, they‘d be unstoppable. The TOTL model of this series (https://www.nubert.de/nuvero-170/a042690) looks quite funny. More drivers more better.

Quite impressive, one of the best DIY speakers I've seen measured. My only concern would be that the front baffle is quite hard to make and requires a router. At that point though it's easy to round over the corners on the front baffle as well.

The input level needs to be high enough, not sure if they spec it here. Auto-on/off rarely works perfectly in my experience. 94dB @20Hz is realistic for a large-ish ported 10" sub, good value for money. It certainly has flatter FR, but the 15" Monoprice has higher SPL capability...

But they're not. Not awful either, but not good. Really similar to this $200 Yamaha, actually: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/yamaha-r-s202-receiver-review.52587/ FR is worse with 1dB of roll-off at both ends, which is slightly audible. You can see spikes at 50Hz and...

Sure, Hidden Audio runs 20% off sales several times a year as do many other retailers from time to time. Whether or not those end up being good deals depends of course, many subs especially from big audio brands are very overpriced for their actual performance.