DK Design Group X-Dream - wow

Well, there you go, the X-Dream speaker system is aimed at the less than 2% of the audiophile community who can afford them. Makes perfect sense. Of course there are other $25k speakers out there, but Mr. Olson emphatically states that the DK's are THE best ever and forevermore! OK. Let me just cash in a goodly chunk of my retirement savings and I'll be placing my order.

Oh, 400lbs per speaker? Another $2,000 for shipping, and $500 to have some movers carry them into the house. Hmm, while I'm at it, guess I'll have to have an engineer and contractor over to the house to make sure that the floor of my living room won't crumple under the 800lbs of aluminum. Time to trade in our car and start biking to work and everywhere else for that matter, in order to generate funds for the renovations/structural improvements. Heck, maybe I should just have a dedicated room added to the rear of the house. Perhaps most people's residence will be able to handle such mass over a relatively small area???

Any idea if my 2Wpc tube amp will drive these superlative speakers? What about the 125Wpc solid-state amp I used to own? Are the speakers more suited to certain types of music than others? Oh right, the reviewer had to travel to the manufacturer's facility to listen to the speakers, where there was only one system available to demo them and only a CD sampler from another ultra-high-end manufacturer with which to assess these incredible speakers.

How many dealers are actually going to want to have these in stock? It is to be hoped that those that do will also provide decent medical coverage for their employees, the ones that will have to carry them out to the customers' Hummer or the store's truck for home delivery.

Sheesh... ;-)

Um, most of my post above was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek, lighthearted poke at the reviewer and PF for having posted the X-Dream piece as a review when it would probably have been in the Features or Factory Tour section of other review publications. A lot of reviews I've read at least take place in the home or offices of a reviewer/publication, where they take the time to mate the component being reviewed with at least a couple of different pieces of associated equipment (like trying speakers with a couple different amps or preamps).

The reviewer didn't even bother to counterbalance his statement that the X-Dream's are the best he's ever heard and probably ever will, by restating the rather limited context of the review or stating, as many other reviewers do, something to the effect that his findings are based on "... this system, in this room". I think others have already clearly stated that the review appears to be more a piece of promotional literature than anything else.

Given that we don't even know the impedance, sensitivity, etc. of the speakers in question, can anyone be certain that 125 Watts would not be sufficent to drive the X-Dreams or are others, like me, just sharing some opinions and trying to learn and have some fun, as is the habit here in the 'Gon forums? Surely I'm not the only one to have ever questioned the motives or opnions of a reviewer when an article reads more like a marketing device than an un-biased, impartial review.

In addition, it appears that at least a couple of those posting in this thread have had a change of heart in their opinion of the matter, not that there's anything wrong with that, after the new owner of DK entered the fray. There'a a saying in French that my spouse likes to use from time to time, "seulement les fous ne changent pas d'idee", which roughly translates to "only people who are mad (as in mentally ill) never change their mind".

Although I haven't changed my mind since my first post (perhaps that makes me mad), I offer my apologies if I've offended anyone's sensibilities. :-)

Guys, I wasn't bashing the speakers. I just feel that the reviewer, IMHO, did not really perform due diligence on behalf of the readers of PF. I simply posited a rhetorical question, given the lack of any comparisons with other gear, about whether the speakers could be driven and produce satisfying music with something other than the equipment employed for the review, whether a 2 Wpc tube amp or 125 Wpc ss amp, or anything else for that matter.

Peace to all.