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Prior or current owners of PSB Stratus Gold

Since I own a pair of these, and am pretty impressed and satisfied, I still wonder what else is around that has a similar tonal balance, but might be just a bit more detailed. Unfortunately, the opportunity to listen to better class speakers is very limited in my area, and I am not interested in Klipsch, Boston Acoustics or any of the other brands that seem to be carried everywhere.
Like I said, I like the Golds, and I am asking only prior or current owners for their opinion, so please dont just jump in and recommend your speaker of the day if you dont have live in experience with the Gold. I dont want this to degenerate into another mine is better than yours post.
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lacee
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I had a pair of the Gold around 1988 or so.

I powered them with 200 watt mono block solid state amps.

I thought it was moving forward in sound from a pair of Vandersteen 2c,but it wasn't.

The Vandersteens are still a bargain and I wouldn't hesitate to go back to them with the newer edition.

I can't say that about the Golds.

PSB has come along ways also, and todays newer PSB speakers are also a good buy.
I haven't heard them however.
I have heard the newer Vandies.
lacee
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"maybe we are all satisfied...", nothing wrong with that position, but that begs the question, why were the Gold's discontinued?

I think the answer is that when you discover that you can no longer put up with Gold's shortcomings, you move onto the next pair of speakers and until the romance wears thin, move on again.

In reference to Mirage, I owned a pair of the M3Si speakers and ran them with two Bryston 4B amps and a couple of the big Mirage subs with dedicated crossovers and eventually grew tired of their flaws.

Some of us are just harder to please than others, or what we expect the music to sound like is just different from other folks who are more content to leave things as they are and enjoy them for what they are.

AS long as we enjoy , no one is wrong.
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