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’m sure there’s nothing really special about expensive/absurdly expensive speakers except careful design and a lot of trial and error. I’m not the type to think there’s “magic” there. I obviously took apart my speakers which were about 6-7k new. Nothing special except very solid cabinets with internal bracing, impedance-equalized (rather complex) XO, no ultra fancy unobtanium coils or caps with bamboo dielectric. Hell there are coils with ferrite cores in it. The only problem is time and a place to work. I’m in Europe in a small apartment by US standards. I did turn my place into a workshop before but I now value comfort more. Oh and the fact that one needs to accept possible failure. The fact that I mentioned digital XO and active amplifiication is that you can go wrong with passive XOs and it’s a lot of work to tweak them. They can mess up phasing so the speakers can sound flat or weird spatially. Ask me how I know.
Now that shape is something new to me.