So Knee

coops

After about two years of trying Sony kindly have lent me a pair of their SS-AR1 loudspeakers,
- See more at: http://s206.photobucket.com/user/coopie_photo/media/P6113666_zpse25cb935.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0#sthash.fr1pFO9f.dpuf



Keith.

uglymusic

What do you think of them?

coops

Thanks so much for sorting out the photo, they are really good, but unless the pricing can be the same as in the US ( not impossible I would have thought) then they would be too expensive for me at least.
Keith.

uglymusic

Actually, that wasn't me. Must have been Alan or Ben.

What do they retail at?

And I thought you were an out-and-out horn fiend...

Alan

I did it, they are worth seeing.

Keith also has a 'thing' for high end active speaker systems with inbuilt DSP, IIRC.

coops

Alan /Ben thanks for sorting me photo, the Sonys aren't bad nice rich tone, not screechy ,but they tend to homogenise everything, we went back to the Trenner &Friedl RA last evening and the Piano sounded like a piano again, difficult to explain but easy to hear.
I will swap amps over today,
Keith.

uglymusic

So you're giving them the elbow?  \:D/

coops

Yup!
going back to the Trenner & Friedl 'RA' was a relief, once you have heard compression drivers in a properly made horn there is no going back to conventional speakers, horns just have something.
Keith.

uglymusic

Yeah. I have to say I have a hankering after some horns again.

RobHolt

Interesting.

I had no idea that Sony still made real loudspeakers.

Last I recall were the APM models from the early 90s.

Some of those were very good.

Docfoster

Yeah. I have to say I have a hankering after some horns again.

At your age Dave, you must be able to get viagra on prescription, shewerly....

uglymusic

Naughty man  [-X