Why Don't you hear more about Audio Physics Speakers??


Anyone with an informed opinion of this brand

care to comment?? Thanks

 

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Heard the Tempo Plus at Holm Audio here in the Chicago suburbs, and some things were amazing and some I didn't have much of an opinion......just so so. The only speaker I've ever heard where the soundstage was almost the entire room, up/down/sideways/wide. They are also the only speaker I have ever heard that I had no idea where the speaker was, sound just enveloped me from all sides.....and that was in a crowded sound room.

However, they did not "excite me". Impact was not there, gorgeous sweet mids were somewhat there but un-exciting, and transitions seemed to be "lazy" or slow.

Wanted SO much to love them as they were on a ridiculous sale, but just didn't fall in love with them

I’ve heard AP speakers over the years and agree they do an amazing job of disappearing but have no slam/guts to get excited about.

I generally agree that if you are looking for thickness,weight, slam then Audio Physic speakers aren't the go-to speakers.  That's one of the main reasons I didn't keep the Virgos after a home audition - too polite and soft with high energy music.

However the Libra speakers that followed were more dynamic, and the Scorpio model I owned really did have impressive guts and punch.

There are some very insightful comments above and I appreciate them. Thank you.

Consensus viewpoint seems to be:

-Amazing soundstage

-Good lows and highs

-Less than impactful mids

Some preferred brands:

Joseph, Spendor

Some very pleased with the product.

Agreed about confusing product line. 

I will await a report from a reviewer about the "New" enhancement's SQ 

contribution.

 

Does that sound like an accurate paraphrasing?

 

I plan to bring my current Stand Mount speakers to the audition on Monday

of the Classic 10's so I can have a real A/B comparison.

Albeit we will be listening in his room not mine but his is well tuned.

The Joseph speakers are slim floorstanding speakers that cast a walk-in-to-it soundstage like the AP speakers, but have a more pure tone and also, for their size, kick more *ss than the AP.   As John Atkinson put it in his review of the Joseph Perspective Graphene floorstanders:

 

"When the kickdrum was doubled with synth dropped-bass notes, I was astonished by how much clean, low-frequency energy four 5.5" woofers could pump into my room.

With the Perspective2's combination of clean dynamics and rich, well-defined low frequencies, orchestral music was well-served. The big tune at the start of the first movement of Elgar's Symphony No.1 (Sir Adrian Boult conducting the LPO, of course, 16/44.1k ALAC files ripped from CD, EMI Classics 64013), with its pulsing bass line, sent shivers down my spine."