Anyone own the King Sound "King" speaker that can

Grannyring-on the soundlabs have you considered a older pair of m1,m2 or m3's that can be upgraded saving you $$$ or are you looking for the newer panel style;if that is the case maybe give Duke a call at Audiokinesis or Brian from Essentialaudio they might be able work a deal for you,they are great guys as well.

I think the going price is $8000 or $8500.

Bill, it would be best to talk to Roger. Douglas Schroeder emailed me offline and I filled him in, and I will respond to you here as well, but my one concern is what Roger may have done to the speakers since I heard them. The cost has gone up significantly.

I listened to them twice. Imaging was very good, even sitting off center. Roger was using an RM-200, pot in the box, and a Sony CD player in his system. Zip cord for speaker cables, his own ICs, and RCA to XLR adapters on the amps. The sound stage was big, music very life like, vocals exceptional, bass a bit weak, but very acceptable. Second time around the bass issue was corrected and the speakers sounded very much like the Sound Labs I have heard. At this session Kavi Alexander of Water Lily Acoustics was also present and as a Beveridge owner himself was very impressed.

The foot print of these speakers was extremely small and would be easy to place. Roger was using what appeared to be an external bass amp, but I believe he was working on integrating the amp into the speaker base. Not sure how this ended design wise.

Clio09, you may have been listening to the King II, which uses an outboard power supply. To my knowledge there is no separate bass amp; all the drivers are powered together.

The King II is at $10,500, which is not out of line with the original King and VAC power supplies at a total of $9,800.

They are quite different, with the King II having the same driver technology as the Prince II. It seems the integration of the King II's amp into the base of the speaker is not finalized yet.

Douglas, I was referencing the Musuc Reference speakers in my post.