My new speakers


After owning Monitor Audio PL500 II speakers for 10 years, I’ve purchased my last speakers, YG Acoustics Sonja 3.3s. They are definitely different than my Monitor Audio PL500 II speakers. In my opinion, Monitor Audio PL500 II speakers offer a great value and do many things well. BUT, the Sonja 3.3s are clearer, tonality is improved, more dynamic and instruments/singers are more palpable. I’m not suggesting a night and day difference, but easily discernible differences. Unfortunately, Incremental improvements are very expensive in this hobby. I would say that I’m done, but I’m sure I’m going to change my Chord Dave DAC.

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Conrats on your new speakers!  They look awesome. 

I haven’t had the pleasure of hearing any YG speakers yet, but as a former speaker designer, I’ve admired a lot of the things they do.  I particularly like the crossover point between midbass and woofers @ 90hz, which puts the vast majority of the vocal range into solely the midbass drivers instead of splitting it with the crossover between the woofer and midbass drivers....it gives a much better chance of excellent coherency IME.  Many speakers  put the crossover smack dab in the middle of the vocal region, which is also the primary range that just about all acoustic instruments play in.  There’s never a free lunch, but keeping all those fundamental frequencies in the same driver always made sense to me, and is the approach I took with the speakers I’ve had and loved for the past 30 years.  Hope you get as many years of satisfaction from yours.  Enjoy!

Nice speakers , the Swiss Merason  dac 2 dac is very detailed but very natural sounding the stack of Burr Brown chips are roughly 30% R2R and the other 70% delta sigma 

I own one after comparing many. Perrotta consultants  Anthony gives  very competitive pricing and great service .

My thoughts after having new speakers for several days. The YG Sonja 3,3 speakers haven’t been dialed in yet. Final placement and spikes will be completed on Tuesday. That being said, there are clear differences between every speaker I’ve owned and the Sonja 3.3s. I’ve owned several speakers prior to the YG Sonja 3.3s...Aerial 7Ts, several Wilson Audio speakers, several Revel speakers, Artemis EOS, several Klipsch speakers, and Mirage M1s. I’ve listened to Magicos, Von Schweikerts, Vivid Audio, MBLs, and several others. The Sonja 3.3s are very dynamic sounding and one of the few speakers that I’ve listened to that I consider as dynamic as Wilson Audio speakers. In my system/room the 3.3s are neutral and don’t highlight any particular frequency. They produce a 3-dimensional soundstage and imaging that I’ve never experienced before with any other speakers. In comparison the PL500 throw a big soundstage, but not as defined and fleshed out as the 3.3s. Songs that I thought were closed-in, now have a very open sound. My wife continues to say that every instrument/singer has their on space. YG Sonja 3,3 speakers are like technical instruments that allows me to hear every little nuance within a recording, while still being musical. 

Impressive speakers.

3 footing design-no kiddies/doggos in that room!

 Pair of No.32's👍

Why not a pair in the rear too?

After demoing many speakers at audio shows and stores, Magico and YG consistently resonated with me as my favorite. Unfortunately a used YG Sonja was unaffordable and a used Magico s5 or better was a budget stretch. Lower model YGs just seemed like a significant drop from Sonja. On my journey, I did give Monitor Audio PL300 several serious store demos before continuing my search. 

Congratulations!