Watt Puppy 7 with Pass X250.5?

Audiooracle, I saw recently that Joe D'Appolito, knowingly called "Paul DiAppolito" by that other unbiased sage of Usher speaker technology Aintitgr8, changed the tweeter and midrange of his speakers to beryllium and has been driving his Ferrari reconfigured from carbon fiber, aluminum and titanium to wood, mdf, lead and epoxy, all the way to the last century.

As with you, just trying to be informative.

No axe to grind here, obviously.

Khrys, dude, thanks for the dose of morning entertainment. This was a good one!

Hey Khrys I did find that amusing!

As I said guys it is your money, the people who have heard and bought the BE series of Ushers know just how good they are.

I wish Usher had better ads, and made smaller speakers but look at the two reviews for them in the reviews section, and both guys thought the Usher's were in the same league as much more expenisve speakers that cost double to triple the price.

I know that in the next few years Usher will emerge to the reviews and limelight they deserve, Paul DiAppolito not included.

I think it may depend on what kind of music you listen to. Based my my experience with WP 6s I owned for a year or so, the soundstage is very engaging. The low end is spectacular and very satisfying: detailed and not boomy, clear and not opaque; the bass attaches itself the the instrument producing it; it's not just an amorphous bass cloud. (In fact the Puppy bass is about state of the art to my ears.) But if you listen to a lot of vocals, especially popular music, make sure you audition first.

The vocals (REM, Beatles, Karen Carpenter) were mechanical and grating in my system (Pass X350 amp and Accuphase DP75V). This was not the case with former Aerial 10Ts in the same system.

(Von Schweikert vocals and mids/highs in general are also smooth and excellent in tonality, and a switch to Wilson might be a shock if you are coming from th VSR sound.)

Classical music was very good though, with a little buzziness on a piano notes on just a few CDs.

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