New Gallo 3.5's

Hi Doug, yes I own a pair of 3.05's actually. Other than the removal of the switch on the back of the speaker, there was some other modification made to the crossover??? I don't honestly remember, it was right before the 3.1 came out. Anyway, I love the speakers. I use them along with the Gallo sub amp, and they never cease to amaze me. IMO they are one of the best values in the speaker market. In reference to Stereophile; I can only imagine there are some politics at play as to why they haven't reviewed them. I am very curious to hear the new 3.5.

As you may or may not recall, Wes Philips heard the 3.1 at, I believe, the 2006 CES, loved them, and requested a review pair. Apparently, Gallo promised him a review pair. After their non-appearance, I raised some questions, and got into a, ahem, dialog with John Atkinson. After much back and forth, the story is apparently Gallo elected not to send them for review. After reading a response from Wes Philips, I intuit from that response that Gallo's reviews were so positive that he did not need another positive review since the speakers were selling so well, and did not want to risk any negative critism that may negatively effect sales.

In light of all the full-page advertising that Gallo did when these events transpired, I doubt advertising had anything to do with the non-review in Stereophile.

Very interesting, and it fits with Gallo's own statements. What did Wes Philips actually say about the speaker?

I've provided the link.
http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2006//index2.html

BTW, and totally unrelated to anything we have been talking about, I finally got an NAD receiver working with the 3.1s. The audyssey EQ program is really pretty impressive and the changes that it makes to the speaker's output suggests that the presence regions 1-2.5K are perhaps a bit depressed on the 3.1s? Although I tend to hate equalization of any kind, I couldn't really find myself preferring the stock speaker response anymore after listening to the various compensated EQs - one a ruler flat one, one the stock or standard Audyssey curve and another that is an NAD proprietary curve that is slightly warmer and fuller sounding than the flat EQ. All of them however, boosted the speakers output in the presence regions. Interesting . . . . Curious to try this with some other speakers that have markedly different coloration from the Gallos to see if they end up sounding like them when equalized. Anyone else with experience with this program?

best, Doug