Anyone else order Caladans from Clayton Shaw?

@ozzy62 - 93db

I'm running Quick Silver Mid Mono amps at 40 watts into M3 Saphire's which are 92db

• 1.5″ THICK BAFFLE CRAFTED FROM KILN DRIED SOLID AMERICAN HARDWOOD
• DRIVERS: TWIN 12 INCH DIA. STUDIO-GRADE BASS/MID UNITS ONE 1.125 INCH DIA. WIDE-RANGE SILK DOME TWEETER
• WIRING: JUPITER TWISTED PAIR IN COTTON
• FREQUENCY RANGE: 32Hz–20kHz +/- 2dB
• SENSITIVITY: 93 dB 1W/1M
• IMPEDANCE: 4 Ohm
• INPUT: WBT NEXTGEN 0703 BINDING POST. BANANA, SPADE AND BARE WIRE
• FEET: HARD RUBBER DISKS ($0) OR ISOACOUSTICS GAIA III ($295)
• PRODUCT DIMENSIONS: 38”H X 18”W X 10”D (including support legs). 35 LBS EACH
• SHIPPING DIMENSIONS: 44” X 23” X 12” 53 LBS. TWO CARTONS
• WARRANTY: 5 YEAR LIMITED MANUFACTURES WARRANTY

nickdig1,

I get it, and I went through the same exact thing....having placed my order on 11/1/23. In the end my patience has been rewarded, as the Caladans are an amazing speaker for a ridiculously fair price. I would go through all of the difficulties again, just to get the Caladans.....worth my patience

Has anybody listened to classical, large orchestra works , chamber music, and unamplified (acoustic) vocals on the Caladans. It sounds like a great speaker. Bass and sound  stage seem to be its strong suits. Clarity and neutrality are among my priorities.  Can a big woofer finely resolve voices and strings?  Thanks in advance. 

@dbb 

This was my chief complaint of the Spatial Audio X3. Using a 12” driver to reproduce the crucial midrange seemed to be its shortcoming. The texture and “realness” of the human voice was not conveyed IMHO. It was an amazing speaker in many regards, but ultimately left me cold with its midrange reproduction. The Caladan might not have this issue at all.

I am pretty sure the Caladan does not have that problem.  Clayton went from using Eminence woofs to Beyma for a reason.....however, two 12 inch woofers can only do so much.  The Beyma cones weigh 74 grams each.  This is why I am making my speaker (using the same woofers as the Caladan) using a time aligned planar dipole driver crossed over at 400hz.  The planar diaphram weighs something like 1.4 grams.  Should be way faster and cleaner than the Caladan that is crossed over to a $39 tweeter at 1K.  I should have my speaker up and working next week (woofers already burned in using a 15hz sine wave for 125 hours).  I mounted the woofers face to face and wired them out of phase.  I will have pics and information on my website soon.  By the way, this is a good way to burn in any speaker......just put them very close together and face to face and wire one out of phase and run a 10-20hz test tone all day and night.  You will hear nothing from the speaker but they will "wiggle" like crazy.  This is primarily for woofer burn in.....your whole speaker will still need to be played to be burned in or you can use wide band noise with them facing each other.....but it will probably still be heard......some throw a blanket over the speakers while they are playing.