Looking for a good full range floor stander

audiotroy"Sfoth what your major malfunction?"

He can only feel happy, content, and satisfied when he is insulting, degrading, and bullying others like he likes to do with you. It makes people like this feel smart, important, and respected and can be shown by the way he says he speaks for others on this cite and knows what they think, feel, and prefer. 

@paliden  Also worth taking a good look at the larger offerings in the Daedalus line made by Lou Hinkley in Washington State.  They offer high sensitivity, but can also equally well be driven by more conventionally powered amps.  And Lou is a delight to talk with in person.

ihasguy, there are always a few groups of anything.

In our opinion after having worked with many, many different types of planers we have yet to find a single system that is based on a flat diaphram to have a life like and believable image, with the kind of bass reponse and dynamic shadings which we have found in either line source loudspeakers like the Scaenas, or the best dynamic loudspeakers.

The issue with the best dynamics is that you need bigger speakers to create the same sense of image space, the difference is that these speakers then create images which are more in the size and scope of a realistic image size, do the best dynamic speakers have flaws of course they do, it depends on what you find appealing.

The OP should look at a set of JBL they will fit our criteria for high efficiency, high power handling and high output,  don’t know the bass specs on the model you quoted.

As per the major malfuction line who was attacking whom? Sfoth made a bunch of obnoxious comments because in the context of comparing a large manufactuer to a tiny one man operation, we mentioned a little thought of fact which is a one man company may have zero plans for contuinity in the case of the death of the principle.

Mortality is a fact of life and one of the advantages of purchasing a JBL or Focal or KEF, etc vs a tiny company like a Green Mountain Audio, Merlin etc is the likely hood of getting service and support for many many years into the future, we also mentioned as Salk uses good commercial drivers that that may or may not be a problem.

Honestly guys many of you need to ligthen up. These are discussions on products, nobody is instulating anyone’s wife.

There are Porsche Guys who like small 4 cylinder or 6 cylinder tubo changed engines and Ferrari guys who like 8, 12, 0r 16 cylinder naturally aspriated engines, which approach is better depends on the taste of the driver.

We still stick by our points about flat planers that there is nothing to push against, and when you bass wave is out of phase from the in phase front wave form as these are diapoles you have diapolar cancellation, and poor bass and dynamics. Couple that to an image which tends to be too large based on deffraction you will see that for the strengths of low coloration and a fast clean light weight driver you still have those weakness to overcome.

The only planer to date we have found which did not seem to have many of these issues is the Mura SP1.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ