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Help me chose: Verity - PBN Montana - Gemme Audio

Greetings

I am looking a pair of used speakers and the following are available near me:
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Reference 3A Grand Veena - $6899
Gemme Audio Katana - $6054
VERITY AUDIO Fidelio - $4224
PBN MONTANA EPX - $5491

I do not have anything today :/ I miss listning to music through some "real" speakers. What I do have however is a source. I will use Modwright Transporter to play FLAC/Wav.

I would consider myself a musiclover foremost and audiophile second. What I mean is that I am not looking for a super detalied sound that will make bad recordings sound shit. I hate thin sound and treble that gives you headache. Detailed and organic is what I am looking for, I think. I want to be emotional engaged in the music.

I would rather give up some detail for speakers that breath life.

Bad recordings can not be fixed, that I know.

Sorry for my bad english, I am Swedish ;)

Thanks.

.Sebastian.
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pbnaudio
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Hi Bvdiman,

Interesting response, what in particular do you mean with "Based on their ads alone" - you of course are entitled to your own opinion but we have got a tremendous response from the ad campaign running in Stereophile, overwhelmingly positive. They are meant for you to actually stop and read the ad, not just glance on a pretty picture and read a corny caption like 99% of ads.

Peter

bvdiman
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Hi Peter,

I guess different ads work for different folks, just happen that the Pbn ones doesn't do it for me. It may have succeeded as a stopper, but sorry to say that compared to the Wilson, Magico, Avagarde, YG ones, the Pbn's came across (projected itself--image wise) as the home industrial type against 'them' being the more established manufacturers. Visually, imo, the artwork and photography needs re-working, also possibly the body copy condensed to it's essence. My apology to have put it rather blatantly.
psjulian
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I would put the Montana's first. I owned Kharma 3.1's for over 3 years. I wanted to have more bass but still keep the beautiful soundstaging and disappearing act. I found them in the Montana's. I have the EPS II's. The sound is full, large, and balanced. They disappear every bit as well as the Kharma's. The Verity that I'm familier with has a ribbon tweeter that I don't care for. That's just me, I don't care for ribbons. I have a custom built sound room and everybody thats been in it goes crazy over the sound in my room. Again this is my view. Your mileage may vary. Peace and Good Listening, Pat.
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pbnaudio
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Hi BV

Not to worry - you have to thick skinned to be in this business :-) On another note have you actually ever heard any of my speakers ? same question to Grannyring and mtdking ?

And Pat - thanks for the kind words its greatly appreciated

Peter
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grannyring
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Yes Peter. I owned the EPX for about a year. You make a very nice speaker to be sure. My comments were simply in reference to the others compared to PBN.

I found the others listed and my current to be more to my taste. In my system the PBN's were a tad froward and bright.

Again, the PBN speaker was impressive in many ways and for some the best of the group. Very subjective as you know.
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