KEF R11 vs B&W 702 vs Golden Ear Triton 1.R vs?


Looking for speakers in the $5000-$6000 pair range. These three are well rated and available locally
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Op we sell both the Kef and the Golden Ear and have heard the B&W.

Personally we feel that the Golden Ear Tritron 1R are an absolute steal and when setup properly will outperform any $5k set of loudspeakers on the market.

The KEF R series are very well balanced and have a wonderful big and focused soundstage, an excellent midrange and very tight deep bass for the money.

The Tritron 1R throw an equally big soundstage with a bit less focus, howerver their deep bass is mismerizing and can bring alive music that has a great underpinning with bass.

Also the fact that the Golden Ear has adjustable bass can help the speaker really perform optimally in the space. 

The Tritron 1R are just amazing sounding, we heard them at Axpona and they were the most compelling speaker demo under $10k after walking almost the entire show, we concluded that the Triton 1R are just too good to compete against and begged Golden Ear for a dealerhip, they are that good!

The Trition 1R are a huge improvement over the older models which did not have the seemless integration of the midrange and the tweeter.

The new Reference class drivers are just in another league than the olde Tritions.

If you run the Trition 1R with good gear you will be rewarded with a transparent, dimensional sound iwth fantastic deep bass and a smooth midrange. Just draw dropping for the money and we sell many of the best loudspeakers in that price range from Quad, Paradigm, Kef, ATC, Legacy, PSB,and a few others, the Trition 1R are just unbeatable for the price.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Golden Ear and Kef dealers
Actually Avantl the Triton 1r are very transparent Heil Amt tweaters are known and prized for exactly that.

We would argue that the non reference Tritrons were lese coherent the redesigned 1R are quite coherent.

The Triton 1r have been receiving incredibile reviews because of their overall performance is so high.

They have far deeper bass coupled to a much larger soundstage, greater sensitivity as well as having adjustabilty in the bass over the Spendors.

You should really listen to a pair the 1r were rated as the best affordable loudspeaker at Axpona.

Also the new Kef R do not sound metalic.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Golden Ear and Kef dealers