David:
From what I know, they don’t even have a name yet. We just call them the mini Ulfberts.
It’s kind of a long story how we got to these. And apparently Eric already had them planned but he did not mention them to me til later in our conversations.
My primary focus was Home Theater. Me and my wife are getting older and some of the movie dialog is not too good and we get irritated when we can’t make it out. So I was shopping for speakers to replace my electrostats.
I heard a lot of different brands. I could not find anything that I thought could get the most detail out of movie dialog and still knock my socks off with music. I listened to SF, B&W, Wilson, etc. (a bunch more too). I came down to the Paradigm Persona speakers for the best clarity (movies) and the Wilsons for the best music, but I really wanted to find something that could do them both.
I had heard that Legacy Audio made some real giant slayers, so I wanted to hear them. My dealer is Raven Audio here in the Houston area. I spoke to Dave (owner --SUPER nice guy) and he also told me to listen to Tekton who he was also going to be bringing in. So I went there to listen to the Legacy Signatures which were about 7K and which I had heard great things about and the Tekton DI’s which were the speakers he was getting in.
In the meantime, with Daves blessing, I was speaking with Eric to try to nail down my requirements for what I wanted. I told him I wanted something with extreme clarity openess.
We specifically discussed the center speaker and I wanted to upgrade from the DI center because I really wanted the best i could get there, so I asked if we could double the 7 speaker cluster to be like the Ulfbert for the center. Eric told me he could do that. We discussed about the DI’s being larger than I would like but I would deal with it if the sound was as good as I heard about.
That was it. No mention of anything alse at that point. i was going with DI’s and a shortened sideways Ulfbert center type of a speaker. I wanted Atmos but was reluctant to give up my JL Audio subs. Eric told me his would sound better, so I looked at the Cinema subs, but they are just way too big for me plus I have 2 subs and would want two of them.
So I told Eric that I had an appointment set up with Dave to listen to the Di’s and we spoke some more about the DI’s and their size. Eric told me that he was hearing about some other $7500 speakers and he just wanted to blow everything at the $7500 price point out of the water. He told me that the Ulfbert was the best sounding speaker he had ever heard, but they were too big and too expensive for me since I was doing the whole system. Then he told me he had designed a smaller version that was even less wide and less deep than the DIs but taller (to keep the enclosure space) that he was going to sell at $7500 to blow everything away. It seemed like exactly what I wanted because it would match my center and he said it would sound better than the DIs. I really don’t know what the rest of the driver complement is. I know it has the some tweeter config as the Ulfbert, and I guess I’ll get surprised by the rest. (I actually texted him to ask him about it since you made me want to know). I trust him so if he says it will sound better, I’m not going to question him.
I went out and listened to the DI’s and decided that I wanted to buy them. He did some trick stuff for the subs also. I already have bored everyone to death with the length of this post, so I guess I’ll leave that for another post if anyone is even interested.
