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$2,500 Speaker Evaluation Event - Nominated Speakers Voting Poll

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#1 ·
The speaker nominations for the $2,500 two-channel speaker evaluation event has been closed and the voting now begins. Thanks to all who nominated speakers... we certainly have a lot to choose from. Remember, that even if your favorite speakers do not get selected this round, they could be selected for a later round. We will likely take some of the higher voted speakers for the next round-up, so please vote regardless of whether you believe they will be included in this round or not.

We have NOT contacted all of these speaker manufacturers to see if they will participate, although we have contacted a few. If a speaker is voted in the top 4 and the manufacturer does not want to participate, we will go to the next highest vote getter. In case of a tie, Scoobie will be the tie breaking vote.

Votes are public and viewable.

This IS NOT the poll to select which speakers you think will be chosen by the panelists as their favorites. This poll is for deciding which speakers will be included in the evaluation event.

As previously stated, we are giving our sponsors first priority, so the SVS Ultras and the EP CS2P's are already selected for the evaluation event and both have already agreed to participate.

1. SVS Ultra Tower $2,000
2. Emerald Physics CS2P $3,000
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?

What other four speakers will make the cut?

No code has to be inserted here.*MSRP rounded to the nearest $100.

The average MSRP is approximately $2,500.

Maximum MSRP allowed is $3,000.

If you are not familiar with what the evaluation will consist of, please see The Official $1,000 Speaker Evaluation / Home Audition Event Results

Let the voting begin!

Voting will end on midnight of 9/30/13
 
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#55 ·
We appreciate all who are interested and all who voted. Thank you!



This really isn't the proper place to lodge a complaint, but since you insist...

For the record... the check box reads: Receive Email from Administrators - We encourage you to leave this checked if you plan to frequent the forums and if you desire to receive notification of updates to free software updates, and giveaway announcements.

Nowhere does it say that free software updates and giveaway announcements are the only things we plan to email you. As a matter of fact, we no longer send out emails about either one of those via Admin emails, thus I will remove it. We include those in our newsletter now, which I am sure if the request to vote in our polls bothered you, the newsletter will cause you to go into the hospital.

It sounds like the only reason you desire to get emails from us is if you are going to benefit by way of REW updates or giveaways. If our other emails bother you enough to cause you not to want to get any mail from us at all (and we do not send that much as it is - maybe 3 or 4 this entire year) then you are likely here for the wrong reasons.

Some folks appreciate what we do... some don't. Obviously you don't, therefore we don't really care if you ever get another update on REW or a notification of a giveaway or not. Your attitude just really does not fit our forum... you would probably fare better somewhere else.


Hello Home Theater Enthusiasts,

I would not choose any of these speakers. Instead, I am drawn to high fidelity products rather than fashionable names.

JPC
So you are suggesting that none of these on the list are high fidelity? Seriously?


I would love to see Newform Research's in there.

Cheers,

Tom eh
I will try to keep those in mind for the next round and maybe we can include them. If you happen to remember, if we do nominations for the next round, mention them to us then.


The voting numbers seem odd. Suddenly some have 70-80 votes and nobody left a comment for them . Can you vote three times for the same speaker ?
No... but I can tell you that there are a lot of members who vote but do not post anything, which is not a requirement to vote. You can see who voted for each speaker though... just click on the number of votes.


I was hoping to see how the cornscala D's fared but... :rolleyesno:
As I stated above... maybe we can get them in the voting for next time around. Of course remember that they have to be voted on and the manufacturer has to agree to send them to us. It ain't automatic.
 
#42 ·
I am also very interested in how the RAAL tweeter fares in a comparison. I voted for the Salk but if it ends up being the Ascend that is fine with me also. I would like to have that compared to the seas so the Tekton Pendragon is my next vote and my final vote went to the Triton Two. Looking forward to the seeing who the final contenders are and the results of the comparison.
 
#45 ·
I see the Von Schweikert VR-22 are lagging a bit in the poles. In the past I have not really looked into Von Schweikert because they seemed out of my price range. The VR-22s look really interesting though. I hope more people take a look at these and start voting for them.

I have been in search for a really magical speaker, something that really gets me into the music and moves me. The Dynaudio line is always well reviewed and respected and when I have heard them, they seem accurate and without any real flaws, but for some reason they just don't quite do it for me.

I put in a vote for the Triton 2. I have heard the Aon bookshelf and the mids and upper frequencies were excellent, but to my ear there was something very wrong with the bass response. I saw one review say the same about the Triton 2 so I almost didn't vote for it. Still it seems almost universally praised as a giant killer.

I also put in a vote for the Song Tower as these get great praise over on audiocircle, the woodworking is fantastic and apparently everybody loves the RAAL tweeter.

Many of the English speakers are hard to demo and find dealer networks, like the Tannoy and Canton. I am reluctant to buy without an in home trial period. I know Von Schweikert, Salk Sound, Ascend, and Magnepan have in home trials and maybe some of the others too.

To my ears the Magnepan 1.7s cannot due justice to heavy metal, which is my primary music. Perhaps it is all about the proper sub-woofer integration and the using the right amplifier. From what I have read equipment synergy is a huge issue with Magnepan.
 
#47 ·
I was hoping the VR-22s would sneak in, but it looks unlikely. Looking at the leaders, I would prefer if one of the planar and one of the Raal speakers made it, rather than, say both the Maggie's and ML or both the Ascend and Salk. I just think it would be more interesting with varied types of speakers.
 
#59 ·
Hi all,

I'm missing any of the better European active monitors in this list.

On a limited budget (anything except cost-no-object, that is), I'd always recommend saving the $ on a power amp and expensive speaker cables and buying high-end active studio monitors such as:
Genelec 8040B,
Dynaudio Acoustics BM6AMkII,
Focal Solo6 Be, or
Adam Professional Audio A8X.

I have 2 pairs of Genelecs (both with subwoofers) here at home and love them, and the cabling is much easier! (Use a balanced pre-amp, of course.) The University here has a mix of Dynaudio and Adam active monitors and they also provide fantastic price/performance ratios. Avoid the "also ran" non-audiophile brands like Mackie, Behringer, M-Audio, JBL, Event, etc.

...just a thought; I'm not trying to pick a fight...

stp
 
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