Stereophile review of Escalante Fremont

Interesting, I had 2 people that lived near me owning these.. They both ended up feeling after 6 months to a year of use their time to shine had expired.. Not sure, I heard them, okay but nothing all that astonishing to me. They lacked that jump factor of dynamics, and bass was pretty shy. Both sets were run on very top shelf equimpment, one pair was even setup with the 27,000 dollar Jadis mono amps.. I think they are not a bad speaker, but for the hardware used in them they are way out of the price range in my opinion.. More like a 7500 to 10 k class vs. a 15,000 is I think the biggest detriment to them. The one guy ended up listening at my place and was blown away by the open soundstaging, well endowed bass, very dynamic range of what I had setup, he bought the speakers I own the following day and sold of the escalantes. So its gonna be opinions and your own final solution that dictates whether a review is correct or not. By the way I could care less about stereophile or the opinion given, just seems sometimes they might hit something on the head whether it has anything to do with advertising, politics or whatever.

Regarding the measurements, I have a friend who recently bought the Fremonts, and they measure in his room in a manner that is very close to Atkinson's measurements. That being said, my friend likes the sound of the speakers and, at least at this stage of the game, does not detect troublesome timbral inaccuracies or problematic colorations. The speakers were purchased used and are believed to be properly burned in. The speakers are also set up correctly on the spikes.

I have not heard the speakers, so I don't have a personal view as to their performance.

But looking at the Fremont, you might expect such a graph. It has the Revelator tweeter and one big, honking woofer. Isn't that pretty much the recipe for a large dip in the midrange?

PS: I like the way they sound, though.

incredibly average

Seems our international respectable Stereophile magazine has a lot of degradation in their quality

If the measurements are completely wrong (incorrectly and incompetently made) then I agree...but where is the evidence that Stereophile measurements are that bad. (Spikes and burn-in are irrelevant for the kind of obvious problems we see on the plots, which are among the worst I have ever seen published by Stereophile but I recall even the Maxx2 had some slightly weird stuff going on - but nothing like this - perhaps there is something in the air in Provo in the stratospheric high end...sniff sniff?)