I still own a pair of Gem II speakers, which I bought in Nashville, TN in the late 80’s / early 90’s; don’t recall the exact year. These speakers were the terminus of my search for the "perfect" speaker for my ears. I’d owned Snell, Infinity, and something else I can no longer recall, and the Gems gave me most of what I’d been looking for, in a small package! Clearly, they aren’t perfect, but give an overall ease of listening with tremendous low end for such small speakers and good mid and high end clarity without harshness. I’ve toted them with me for every move over many years and have thought a few times to sell them, but never received anything approaching a reasonable offer; now planning to just keep them even though I haven’t been able to regularly set them up for listening.
I’d been looking for info on the company over the years and I’m glad to find a few groups who know anything about Essence and Dale Pitcher. I’m contributing here mainly to post a link to Dale’s LinkedIn page, which I recently located, and that might be of interest or use to anyone here wishing to contact Dale about Essence speakers.
Dale Pitcher’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-pitcher-447306a0/