Great thread. I personally listen with my ears and then make decisions. I have owned the first Treo's adn now own the Quatro CT painted (an option for the Treo on up and worth it if you love the painted look).
What Richard has done with carbon fiber and drivers is amazing. He has designed and built his own cones and sends them out to be finished by a top manufacturer. That's proprietary to say the least and it shows in the sound. Those 7's to my ears are as good or better than anything I've heard. He actually spend a lot of time and money using different CF fabrics to chose the one he felt was teh best sounding. It's actually similar to the fabric that is used in my walking sticks (I have MS and use a rollator, but have sticks to get around in the house when needed etc...).
The 9's are very special subs in their CF build to their ability to fill large spaces etc... The new Sub 3's are affordable and have built in EQ as we spoke about earlier. Set up properly, they will smooth out the bass just as good as a swarm or any of the subs.
What the swarm is, can be done with any sub. I personally would rather just get two great subs rather than 4 subs that may or may not sound as good. Just because a sub can be purchased for half of the cost of another one doesn't mean it will sound nearly as good as the other one.
I have a close audio buddy who auditioned the AK swarm vs many other subs and went with the Vandy 2's. It's always a personal choice as we know. Back to listening.
What Richard has done with carbon fiber and drivers is amazing. He has designed and built his own cones and sends them out to be finished by a top manufacturer. That's proprietary to say the least and it shows in the sound. Those 7's to my ears are as good or better than anything I've heard. He actually spend a lot of time and money using different CF fabrics to chose the one he felt was teh best sounding. It's actually similar to the fabric that is used in my walking sticks (I have MS and use a rollator, but have sticks to get around in the house when needed etc...).
The 9's are very special subs in their CF build to their ability to fill large spaces etc... The new Sub 3's are affordable and have built in EQ as we spoke about earlier. Set up properly, they will smooth out the bass just as good as a swarm or any of the subs.
What the swarm is, can be done with any sub. I personally would rather just get two great subs rather than 4 subs that may or may not sound as good. Just because a sub can be purchased for half of the cost of another one doesn't mean it will sound nearly as good as the other one.
I have a close audio buddy who auditioned the AK swarm vs many other subs and went with the Vandy 2's. It's always a personal choice as we know. Back to listening.