Fascinated By GR Research Channel

What’s up with all these comments about how he doesn’t push his products or services? That’s the whole point of his videos!!!!! I’ve got a bridge to sell a few of you ;)

”look at all the faults I can find with this speaker and here is what I would do to make it better” is the point to every video he does. It makes people think he can make any speaker better.  And obviously if he can find faults in some of the great speaker designs then it MUST mean his speakers are flawless……..

The best point to take from all of this is that you don’t just throw more expensive parts at a design, like others have said, it might make it sound different but it was designed to sound a certain way. You can change this but it doesn’t always mean it’s better in the end.

I have built 2 kits from Danny and a crossover upgrade on another. He is a straight shooter and IMO does great work. The X-Statics are a fantastic speaker. Quality parts make good music, seems simple enough.

"I've watched a few on recommendation. Mostly rubbish for the ignorant."

ieales: coming out from under the bridge, eh?

There are reasons the GR Research rooms at RMAF were constantly receiving Best of show comments from reviewers like Steven Stone and others.  The man absolutely knows what he is doing.  He has done consulting work for Usher, Tyler Acoustics, Hawthorne, Emerald Physics, and the list goes on...  

His NX-series of speakers are stunners for the money.  The NXtreme line arrays with open baffle bass modules are the most dynamic, coherent and sonically invisible loudspeakers I have ever heard.

Rubbish is commenting without basis.

I know that the proprietor of Harbeth is very much ‘old school’ in that he doesn’t believe audiophile components provide any improvement over industrial grade, and that he personally uses well maintained 1970’s era transistor amplifiers because it’s very difficult to significantly improve on them. Not real big on speaker cables either - very much a ‘wire is wire’ man..

I think you can see that philosophy clearly reflected in the speaker dissection.

Most people wouldn't bother to upgrade any of their equipment. They'd just sell it and buy something else. 

Danny at GR understands that for a subset of the market that is willing to tweak or upgrade, this can be done at a fairly low $$ cost. The real cost is (a) the customer admitting their stuff isn't optimal and (b) being willing to reach out, ship the speakers, take the risk, etc.

IMHO, *that* is his business model. And it's a good one.