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While in college I saved up my Walmart garden center wage earnings for my first pair of real hifi speakers from Insight Audio in the Dallas area. Their demo of the Hales Revelation speakers blew me away. About twenty years later they were replaced with a pair of JBLs. Flash forward 7 years and lot of room acoustics work I currently own two pairs of speakers and was not looking for a third. TMR recently put up for sale a pair of Transcendence 5s. I impulse purchased them they same evening I saw them listed. I just got them this morning and made room for them. The grills are in perfect condition, which is very unusual. Overall they are in great condition for their age. TMR does a great job about being upfront on condition.

I set them up with my ML 532H, Bricasti M3 and Purist cables. They sound awesome. They walk that Hales line of clarity/tautness and body so well. The sound is very big. The HF is not as good as my more expensive speakers. Improvement to my electronics chain could help some, I'm sure. I am very excited to return to the brand with a pair of the "good ones" I could not afford back when they sold new so wanted to post this. 

 

ohlala
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knotscott
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I got to hear a pair of modified Hales Transcendence at Convergent a couple of years ago.  Sounded awesome. 

ohlala OP
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Thank you for sharing, all! Have to get new jumpers, they came with a little bit of twisted wire. The jumpers for my speaker cables about 50% of what paid for the pair...how have times changed ;)

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daveyf
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Years back I owned a very nice pair of System two Signatures. They were easily some of the best speakers available at the time. Heavy and requiring a fairly large space, I still remember them fondly. Paul Hales was a talented designer, it is a shame that he went away from the business. 

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mckinneymike
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@ohlala

I worked with Larry Reagan at Audio Insights and we both worked at Audio Professionals previous to that in Dallas.

 Larry joined Paul after closing Audio Insights store and they were partners up until about 4 or 5 years ago if memory serves me correctly.  

  I started out with Hales Signature Two's (still my favorite of his designs) and still have them, though they have suffered for being in attic storage for the past 25 years......

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