who has experience with Joseph Audio?

I've got to be the lone dissent. I've heard them several times at hi-fi shows, so it was their setup. I have found them dull and uninvolving. Not neutral, but blah every time, especially in the mids and bass. I've always wondered why people like them so much. But that's just me...

Amazing how this stuff hits people so differently. I'm completely opposite of Seditious3, and it's B&Ws that strike me the way the Josephs sound to him. In fact, probably one of my top 5 show experiences was hearing Louis Armstrong from St. James Infirmary (on vinyl) through the Pearls. How anyone could've heard that and not been at least somewhat impressed is beyond me, but so it goes...

I've heard Josephs numerous times at dealers and shows, and it's one of those few speakers that always sound good to me. Natural yet detailed, large and spatious 3D soundstage, excellent ability to disappear in the room, etc. I don't own them, but when I upgrade they'll surely be on my list.

LOL - I'm a B&W fan (although not as much as I used to be). Joseph Audio bought out (or uses) Infinite Slope and their crossover ideas. From a 1996 Stereophile:

Joseph Audio is a relatively new New York based company making loudspeakers designed by Richard Modaferri, who for a long time was one of the engineering lights at McIntosh. All the Joseph models feature Modaferri's patented "Infinite Slope" crossover topology, where a modest network (in terms of number of components used) produces high- and low-pass filter slopes in excess of 100dB/octave.

As I understand it, the crossovers have a very severe drop. For example, if the crossover from the midrange to the tweeter is at 5000 Hz, almost nothing below that point reaches the tweeter, and vice versa.

That sounds like a good idea on paper, but I'm sure that accounts to some extent for the shortcomings I perceive.

Let your ears be the judge - pay no attention to the man behind the keyboard.

I had another point to make, but it escapes me.

I have a pair of insiders that I had to install in my main system for family reasons last summer. They sound great for such a little speaker inside a wall! I can't wait for my 1 year old son to be able to be in the same room as a tower speaker so I can get a pair of RM25s. They work great with tubes btw.

Cheers,
Jim

Just to clarify two posts above: only the second paragraph is from Stereophile, the rest is mine.