Has anyone heard the Usher Audio Speakers


I have read great things about these speakers on several different sites. They seem to have caught the attention of the press at CES this year? Has anyone heard them and if so with what equipment?
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Listen some of their speakers in Taiwan. It seems that they are easier to drive than other high end speakers. The one like SF EA sounds pretty good even on a Denon receiver. Do like powerful amp, but reasonablly smooth even for receivers. Most are at warm side and coherent with SS amp I audit. Do not need too much tweeking compared to others.
I like SF's look better but Usher is friendly to drive compared to other high-end speakers. Can save $$ on speaker and amps. The "copycat" is much bigger/heavier than EA-II if you physically see it. Big speaker line is quite different from amati.
For what I saw in their shop, those top line speaker drivers are made in Europe(France?). They do have some drivers made in Taiwan or box made in China for their lower priced lines target at local market. The new top line ones are co-designed by European also. Well who cares! Sound is more important. As far as I know the store is there more than 20 or 30 years. The owner started his own driver/cabinet building business when he was young. That's McIntosh's time in US.
The owner decided to go for international business incorporated with foreign design. And that's we see in CES show. Magzine's comment is probably before that.

Why I know? I got some used speakscan drivers here in US. Then I plan on building my own speaker. I am an EE engineer so need help to build the cabinet. When I have a chance to have business trip to Taipei, I walked into the oldest store to see if anything can help me. I did not get my customer made cabinet but audit some of their new goody.
That's right before CES show.

The sound is not bad at all. In US, those big speakers are probably push by better amplifiers. I can't comment how it compares with others with different electronics. But it seems friendly to drive. If you can drive it with store's local 150 W amp, I think it will have better kick if Krell, ML, audio research... are used.