A brief review of GR Research Bully

I’ve got the NX-Oticas; built them with some skilled help.

I would not trade them for any other speaker I’ve heard and yes, I’ve heard the Magico M9s pushed by ~$750k of top-shelf electronics.

My intro to GR was the double trouble sub kit, which i’ve been using with a variety of speakers over the years....Built out the NX-Studio kit just out of curiosity (not like i had the space or needed another speaker in the house to enrage the spouse), A/B’d it against speakers that costed/costs magnitudes more...the value proposition with these kits is just hard to believe. They tend to scale up really well as the front end electronics get better as well.

Sounds like the OP has a good thing going with his larger room, choice of front-end electronics and the bully.

P.S. Danny’s only sin is continuing to tweak certain speakers from some other brands that some dudes found depressing (continuing to ship them to GR in pursuit of happiness again)...tends to get the salesmen for such depressing speakers up in arms, "How dare you make him happy again???!!!", sez the sales guy.

While I don't own any GR Research products, I am a fan of Danny's work.

I have helped upgrade several pair of speakers using his upgrade kits, and everyone has been a fairly appreciable improvement.

Some of the Danny haters on YT tend to make comments like; maybe that is just the way the original designers "voiced" the speaker. 

Sorry, but no. Large dips and spikes in the frequency response, poor phase relationships at the crossover points, the acoustic centers of the individual drivers being too far apart, etc, are not choices in voicing the speakers. They are poor engineering. Not is poor cabinet bracing, electrolytic caps and iron core inductors.

I've upgraded more speakers over the years than I can remember, and everything Danny does is just good acoustic engineering practices.   

After many  decades of owning lots of different commercial speakers (including Magneplanar Tympani IVs, Revel Studios, Duntech Sovereigns), I decided to try building a pair of GR NX-Oticas with Triple Threat subs. I was very impressed with the way they sounded. 

When I had the opportunity to build a set of Danny's best design, the Line Force, I jumped at the chance. It ended up taking me close to three years to find enough drivers and have the cabinets made, but the wait was worth it. These speakers are spectacular. I've since also replaced my Triple Threats with quad-driver woofer towers. 

I've since also built a pair of NX-Studios and am helping my daughter build a pair of bullies.