Blue Ridge Sound Engineering Speakers ???

Hey Blue Ridge,

What is your:

Address (not a PO Box)

Phone Number

No one should expect to buy directly from someone we cannot contact in proper.

Why the weird fish thing on your website? I'm not interested in religion, I'm interested in speakers.

Thanks!

Hi Carl,

First of all, my compliments on your innovative design. In a size and price range dominated by 5" two-ways, you have certainly chosen a road less travelled.

Obviously you have paid a great deal of attention to getting a smooth on-axis frequency response, and the resulting curve attests your success in achieving your goal. I believe John Atkinson uses 1/6 octave smoothing on the curves he runs, which leaves gives very good resolution of small, relatively inconsequential response wiggles. I see virtually no such wiggles in your frequency response curve. What sort of smoothing are you using?

Can you tell me where the crossover is between your midranges and the tweeter? Are the midrange cones crossed over before they go into breakup mode?

I estimate that you probably have no more than 1/2 cubic foot internal volume for the woofer section. Given the calculated efficiency (derived from specified sensitivity and impedance), your frequency response curve shows amazing bass extension for that size box. Is that a true simulated anechoic measurement - no boundary reinforcement?

Your impulse response and phase response curves are something of a mystery to me. If one is correct, I don't see how the other can be. The impulse response shows obvious arrival time differences and phase rotation between drivers, which isn't reflected in the phase response curve. Can you shed any light on this?

Thank you and best of luck with your venture,

Duke

I congratulate this company for trying to bring a full range speaker to market for such a reasonable price. Unfortunately, I completely disagree with Blue Ridge's assessment where they state that their reference Allison IC-20 speakers are "Widely considered to be one of the finest, if not the finest sounding loudspeakers ever produced". Now I do know that old school reviewers like Julian Hirsch and the likes (from the days of High Fidelity and Stereo Review) were fond of these. But those same reviewers told us that all amplifiers sound the same whenever they have the same frequency response measurement (ARGH, Wrong!). IMHO Allisons are not in the same camp as the myriad of recent generation “Uber speakers” made in more recent decades. It will be very interesting to see how the Blue Ridge's offering actually stack up against some "real" audiophile speakers.

Is there a connection between Carl and Hifisoundguy?

Hifisoundguy has posted the exact same question, word for word or almost word for word, on four other boards, along with a link to the company website.

He then follows up with a post saying that he has found more about the speakers, along with a link to a discussion on Steve Hoffman's forum.

Finally he posts a notice of an upcoming review in Tone Audio online magazine.

I'm seeing a pattern. It looks to me like Hifisoundguy is posing as an interested potential customer in order to promote Carl's product. So far, not once has he engaged in a discussion with anyone responding to his threads.

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/speakers/messages/246921.html

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/speakers/messages/246939.html

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/speakers/messages/247003.html

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/general/messages/475895.html

http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/index.php?topic=38823.0

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=825328

It walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck.

Duke

ps - those are not actually the same link over and over; it just looks like it.

No, I'm not connected with this company in any way. I found out about the review when I did a google search, it was on the Steve Hoffman forum. I'm just trying to find out more on these speakers, if anyone had them and what they had to say about them....