Axpona 2018

@chrshanl37 

The first Ryan Speakers I heard were the R620s in the Aurilac room on the first level, and I thought ‘these are the speakers everyone raves about?  These don’t sound great’. 

The S610s in the upstairs room were a completely different story - those were great, open, detailed, nice bass and smooth treble, I walked away with renewed respect for Ryan Speakers.  

Interesting comments tutetibiimperes....I had a pair of R610’s that I wanted to build a second system around and thought the same thing at first. In my small room with a Hegel H160 they did not sound that impressive to me.

So I took them to a friends house and set them up un a much bigger room and they sounded much better even with a Peachtree Nova 150. But the aha  moment happened when we hooked them up to his Exogal Comet/Ion. The speakers completley dissappeared and we both sat there in amazement at how good they sounded. If I had the room to set them up properly I would have kept them. 

@chrshanl37  and others. What are your feelings / reasons behind why the Exogal - Ryan pairing was (is) so good?

Hard to say david...every speaker I have heard in my friends room with his Exogal set up sounds really good including his very hard to drive ESL’s. The same friend went to RMAF last year and heard the R620’s with Vincent gear and said it sounded very good as well. 

I had a Peachtree Nova 150, Hegel H160 and found them not to my liking with the Ryans in my room but a chinese Bada amp sounded great.... go figure. My guess is synergy is a big factor.

@chrshanl37  Thank you.