Songer Audio: Simple is Best!


I have been an avid audiophile for decades. I own a large collection of high end gear that I use in multiple rooms, frequently rotate, and listen to constantly. I attend AXPONA and CAF perennially and regularly visit audiophile friends to experience their systems. I’m really into music and audio!

My long audio journey has brought through my system many different speaker configurations, including multi-driver box speakers (B&W, McIntosh, Raidho, YG, Wilson Benesch), panels (MartinLogan, Magnapan, TSW Apogees), omnis (MBL), horns (OMA), open baffles (PureAudioProject, Linkwitz, Cube), various subs (MartinLogan, JL, Linkwitz), full rangers (DIY, Voxativ, Cube, and Songer). I’ve experienced myriad tube and solid state configurations as well as most analog and digital source types. Additionally, I’ve experimented with numerous DSP and analog processing devices including some state-of-the-art components.

My ultimate litmus test is my long-term engagement. No matter how sophisticated, resolving, acclaimed, or expensive a speaker or system may be, if I find myself disengaged, distracted, or just bored, then I will move on from it. I have found that the systems and speakers that hold my attention most are typically the simplest. I tend to increasingly gravitate to simplicity.

The Songer S1x speakers are both the simplest and the best speakers I’ve ever owned. Source to the minimalist conrad-johnson preamp to a magnificent AirTight 300b amp to the single-driver, full-range, field-coil, Songer S1x speakers is a truly magical combination. These speakers are my favorite that I’ve owned (preferable to even my significantly more expensive and sophisticated Wilson Benesch Resolutions which are otherwise superb speakers). They hold their own to anything I’ve heard at shows.

The Songers have bass that should be impossible from a single driver and a 9 watt amplifier! The resolution is superb, the stage is huge, the dynamics are excellent, they are the epitome of musical and natural, and I could listen to them for hours at a time without ever losing interest. Every time I rotate in one of my other speakers, I quickly gravitate back to the Songers.

I credit this incredible accomplishment to Ken Songer’s magnificent driver design, no crossover, the field-coil motor, a superb cabinet, high efficiency, and the perfect point source single full range driver.

At $45,000 a pair, the Songers may be one of the greatest bargains in high-end audio. They’re in that rarified club with the world’s truly great speakers.

If you’re attending CAF, the Songers are a must listen. If you’re in the $50k price range for speakers, contact Songer and arrange a demo. You will not be disappointed!

One more thing….since purchasing my Songers, I’ve had the great pleasure of getting to know Ken Songer. On top of being a brilliant designer and a master craftsman, Ken is also one of the nicest people I’ve ever met in the audio world. I do not consider myself to be his “customer”, I consider myself to be a proud patron of his art!

(This is my current system configuration. It’s a temporary set up. I’m in the process of building new equipment racks and tweaking my cable configurations.)

audionutjeff

I’m trying to decipher which is greater, your arrogance or your ignorance.  Let’s call it a tie.  
 

I too have owned and currently own many very fine speakers.  My current flagship are the exceptional Wilson Benesch Resolutions.  Speakers that would no doubt embarrass your little collection.  They are currently out of rotation because I still prefer the significantly less expensive Songers.  My OMA Minis are also very special speakers that are not quite as good as the Songers.  I also have a great deal of experience building speakers.  In sharp contrast to your assumptions, the Songers measure exceptionally well -not just for a single driver speakers, but for any speaker.  You ignore the tremendous benefits of a true single driver with no crossover.  Your Anton’s attempt to mimic the point source benefits, but are compromised in many ways.  Your technical claims wreak of ignorance.  
 

Your name dropping is quite telling as well.  Clearly you covet admiration of gear and fancy yourself an authority.  Yet, your arrogance reveals that you are merely an insecure narcissist troll.  Your shrill “my $45,000 speakers are better than your $45,000 speakers” demonstrates this quite clearly.  While I’m sure your speakers are quite good, I can’t really fully judge since I’ve never heard them.  I can’t really see how they’re much better than the excellent Fyne speakers -but I’m sure there’s technical advantages in addition to attaching Mark Levinson’s name to them.  I certainly wouldn’t go on a public forum, attack them and accuse the owner of being on the take.  
 

I also am quite confident that you’ve never heard the Songers.  This is classic audiophile armchair quarterback territory.  
 

Arrogance or ignorance?  Nah, I’m going with narcissistic insecurity.  
 

 

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@meiatflask 

Yes, I finished my racks.  They came out quite nicely.  The shelves are butcher block and the legs are 4 layers of Baltic birch plywood.  The legs have hidden spaced mounting holes so that I can adjust the shelving.  I made a wire management system on the rear that works really well.  

I’ll share pictures when I’m at my computer.  

Good luck with your project!  

@riverdinaudio - I am looking forward to seeing your photos, especially the legs, joints, feet.  I was thinking of maple/oak/birch 1x2 as the legs, so I am curious why you chose the plywood.

@audionutjeff

the previous message was for you.  Not sure how autocorrect screwed than one up