The speakers are great. The recent HP review of the Wisdom speakers ($35000) reminds me a lot of the Newforms. John recommends spectron amps but I can't lay my hands on one. The speakers really break in over time. They were sounding pretty good and yesterday I put on a CD with piano on it (one of the winter solstice from windham hills) and wow it sounded like real piano. Talking about it and hearing it are two different things. I was going the Magnepan route and liked them a lot but for some reason my system made them sound bright and I had to cover every single piece of glass in my listening room. The other concerns were the wait for the 1.6s and how loud everyone says you have to play them. My friend came over with his Proceed HPA2 and Rel Storm III to see how they would sound and in a word fantastic. We put on Bella Fleck Cosmic Hippo to test bass and had to roll the Rel off at 28 hz so as not to interfere with the newforms. The proceed is a bass champ anyway but there was not very much difference with and without the Rel in the mix. I'm considereing the tekna sonic vibration absorbers for the cabinets and maybe trying some Aurios for them to sit on. at $299 for a set that would be $600 but you can send them back if not happy. Please report back on the other drivers, I would be interested in hearing about them. One think John told me is that within a year he is hoping to have a digital speaker available but current 645s will be upgradable.
