Shameless Poll: Pearl vs Ohm vs Zu

I for one is happy to see the Ohms' lead the straw poll here, although in another forum  they'd be trampled upon.  I chalk that up to habituation and basic design restrictions between an Ohm/Walsh/omni 'anything else' versus the venerable cabinet profile array of pistonic drivers....a light bulb v. a flood lamp being the default description.

Which format recreates 'a reality' more like reality itself, a field of sound v. a source that only disappears when paired properly.  More sensitive to the space it's in due to it's radial pattern of dispersion, true...but the standard issue does as well at best....

But I'm just 'imh'ing...*L* 
 

Dont know the Pearls, but would pass on the remaining choices.

I would scold Santa for trespassing, littering my house with trash, etc and ask him to take back all 3 lousy speakers and that lousy amp back to his shire.

No thanks Santy...

At this rate, maybe i’ll have better luck with Uncle Lucifer...who may bring something huge and worthwhile....Mmmmmm... like a pair of Tekton Bonnevilles and a pair of Daniel Hertz M1.

I already have a pair of Ohm 2000s but for the 5k you allotted for amplifiers I got an VTV 500 wpc class D amp, an Emotiva PT1 and a pair of SVS column subs for way less than the 5 grand allowed and its stupid good. OMG its clean, powerful, immersive and possibly a verry long term keeper. Well under 10K all in and it really leaves nothing to be desired in my current residence. Once I move back to the house, post-rebuild, I may have a different opinion, but I seriously doubt it. I think its adaptable enough I won't seek to change it.

@audionoobie I read your post with great interest. Your experience mirrored mine...that is until I contacted Evan about what I was hearing, or more correctly, what I was not hearing. Your characterization of it sounding like it was being played thru a blanket fits, but what I said to Evan was this: it sounded to me like dialog was way rolled off, like maybe a big dip in the crossover region between the walsh driver and the tweeter. What I noticed in particular was the total lack of natural sibilance but the upper frequency response seemed ok. So it was like a dip in the 2k -5k response. His response was that he would see what he could do to tweak that in such a way to open up that midrange a bit. So he sent me a couple of replacement drivers that I installed myself. This was the entire canned driver assembly so it was an, unscrew old one, connect new one, and screw back into the cabinets and voila, they went from rejects to keepers. Since then I have had a lot of time to live with them and they continue to impress. I'm sorry your experience was ultimately not satisfactory. I'm glad I stuck it out as I ended up with what I would easily call an end game speaker for the room they have to play in.