Lolligager,
You and I are on the same page, my friend, and thanks for chiming in. I have a DSPeaker Antimode 2.0 digital signal processor in my system that I have employed to great sonic improvements with previous speakers I have had in my system, but it is superfluous with the T4's. I don't doubt that Clayton will come up with performance enhancements that will make his speakers sound even better.
Another impression. These speakers are easily the least placement-sensitive speakers I have ever had in my room. I have a slight asymmetrical setup in my room and have fiddled for days locating earlier speakers, but I haven't found the need to do that at all with the 4T's. They sound great about 2.5' from the rear wall, but do benefit in this position with some Aurelex foam behind them. If I had more distance to the rear wall, I doubt I'd need the sound treatment behind them.
I spent the afternoon yesterday on the sofa listening to the speakers and simply marvel at the openness of their sound, everything sounding so natural and tonally balanced, completely uncontested. I will again provide this caveat: I mate my 4T's with a sub. Frankly, I would be happy with the speakers absent the sub in the system, but they are profoundly more full-ranged and balanced with the addition of the sub. I listen to almost all jazz so I am not a bass nut, but the inclusion of the LF extension brings it all together. This phenomenon is well understood in the audio world and I concur with the notion.
My take is that if your room dimensions permit it, I recommend the Hologram M3T's over the 4T's for the bass extension, which clearly the former will have. If you have a good sub, go with the 4T's and never look back. I have enjoyed virtually every set of speakers I have had in my system over the past 45 years, but these Spatial Audio speakers are really magical and just do everything just splendidly right. To wit, they are the only speakers that I have had in my system that my non-audiophile pals have commented that they look very cool.
If you a reader of this thread who is on the fence about trying these speakers in their system, Spatial Audio provides a period of time to a audition them in your system. I absolutely think there is magic in the inherent design of open-baffle (OB) speakers and can't see myself ever going back to conventional box speakers. I doubt anyone in the audio business will execute the design of an OB speaker better than the brilliant Clayton Shaw. He is not a tinkerer... his speakers are based on years of design, testing, and refinement and he has the educational background to know what he is doing. There a now lots of reviews of the Spatial Audio line that you can Google to see if my impressions are correct.
Cheers, Mark
You and I are on the same page, my friend, and thanks for chiming in. I have a DSPeaker Antimode 2.0 digital signal processor in my system that I have employed to great sonic improvements with previous speakers I have had in my system, but it is superfluous with the T4's. I don't doubt that Clayton will come up with performance enhancements that will make his speakers sound even better.
Another impression. These speakers are easily the least placement-sensitive speakers I have ever had in my room. I have a slight asymmetrical setup in my room and have fiddled for days locating earlier speakers, but I haven't found the need to do that at all with the 4T's. They sound great about 2.5' from the rear wall, but do benefit in this position with some Aurelex foam behind them. If I had more distance to the rear wall, I doubt I'd need the sound treatment behind them.
I spent the afternoon yesterday on the sofa listening to the speakers and simply marvel at the openness of their sound, everything sounding so natural and tonally balanced, completely uncontested. I will again provide this caveat: I mate my 4T's with a sub. Frankly, I would be happy with the speakers absent the sub in the system, but they are profoundly more full-ranged and balanced with the addition of the sub. I listen to almost all jazz so I am not a bass nut, but the inclusion of the LF extension brings it all together. This phenomenon is well understood in the audio world and I concur with the notion.
My take is that if your room dimensions permit it, I recommend the Hologram M3T's over the 4T's for the bass extension, which clearly the former will have. If you have a good sub, go with the 4T's and never look back. I have enjoyed virtually every set of speakers I have had in my system over the past 45 years, but these Spatial Audio speakers are really magical and just do everything just splendidly right. To wit, they are the only speakers that I have had in my system that my non-audiophile pals have commented that they look very cool.
If you a reader of this thread who is on the fence about trying these speakers in their system, Spatial Audio provides a period of time to a audition them in your system. I absolutely think there is magic in the inherent design of open-baffle (OB) speakers and can't see myself ever going back to conventional box speakers. I doubt anyone in the audio business will execute the design of an OB speaker better than the brilliant Clayton Shaw. He is not a tinkerer... his speakers are based on years of design, testing, and refinement and he has the educational background to know what he is doing. There a now lots of reviews of the Spatial Audio line that you can Google to see if my impressions are correct.
Cheers, Mark