First heard speakers from this Danish company (what’s with Scandinavia and audio?) some 7-8 years ago at someone’s place. They were floorstanders from the first series called Eben with an YBA amp and Chord DAC. Now I listened to the X2Ts on Chord electronics (streamer/DAC and amp).
First thing that comes to mind there something about those tweeters. Tons of detail without the slightest harshness, exactly what I noticed the first time. I understand that implementation is everything but there must be a reason they make their own non-dome tweeters.
What’s funny is that at the showroom they also had bookshelves from the company’s upper range that cost EUR 25k/pair. There wasn’t enough time left to listen to those but you’re left wondering. I mean WTF can be better.
I definitely can’t afford anything like that but this made me start browsing hifishark again. Something tells me I’ll pull the trigger sooner or later.
I now have older Dynaudios but I think they’re underamped. Everyone including the guy who sold them to me said they change dramatically with good (read very expensive) amps. Unfortunately where I live the audiophile comunity is sublime but nonexistant so I have zero chances to try another amp and at that price level it’s crazy to buy without testing.
I build a few speakers before. IMO it’s a hit and miss thing, I’d personally be very cautious about spending a lot on top of the range drivers for DIY. My experience is that used speakers beat DIY at price/value and that’s disregarding the effort and the fact that you can listen before buying. I have this project in the back of my mind, something with extreme quality drivers and active amplification/digital XO but that would be many thousands of euros in parts for a questionable goal. I’m not a snob, if someone told be you can reach that level of sound quality with this specific DIY project I’\d go for it without thinking twice about it but oh well…