where are all the posts/reviews about Prana, Philharmonic and others?


Unlike a certain relatively inexpensive brand of speaker, other highly-regarded manufacturers hardly get a mention on the 'gon.  Prana and Philharmonic come to mind.  Also, Selah, Salk, even Daedalus. I'm sure you can think of others. What gives?
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Dennis uses Parts Express cabinets for some of his speakers, and off-the-shelf drivers, but designs his own crossovers, which is what he’s really known for (he’s developed them for many of Salk’s speakers as well) and does offer custom cabinets for those who want to pay the difference.
Dennis offers incredible value, even uncompromising with some of his driver selections. He probably hopes that more people don’t buy his speakers. Why buy a nice kit speaker when you can have something nicer for less?

Salk, Selah, Fritz, etc use very nice quality drivers and they are rightfully proud of this and advertise this on their better offerings.

In contrast, there are other small shops (and even larger) who pretend that their drivers are custom, as they don’t want you to do the math on their driver to cost ratio. These types of shops often times will use higher value drivers and spend money differentiating their product in other ways.

@seanheis1 Have you looked at the cabinets manufactured by Daedalus and Salk?  Dayton cabinets--yeah right?  The Philharmonic 3 cabinet.  Off the shelf--clearly!

Vaughn, and I'm going to add Chapman Audio.  Plenty others.

I'm trying to get at a bigger issue here.  Are the different audio fora characterized by users who prefer a limited range of speakers over others.  Visiting ACircle and then Agon suggests two very different transducer worlds out there.

Or let's try this.  What's the most recommended brand on the 'gon.  My unscientific vote goes to Vandersteen. Runner-ups, in no particular order: Revel, B&W, Focal, Harbeth, Monitor Audio, and others I'm not thinking of right now...

I'm trying to list some of the most overlooked.