@teajay Thanks for your gracious hospitality, and allowing Bon @jayctoy and me into your house to listen to your systems! We certainly enjoyed it, and the listening session was not only enjoyable, but also educational. Oh, and you have a beautiful house too!
My biggest takeaway was that the Perfect SETS and the Ulfs are very different sounding speakers, and ultimately, which one you prefer will depend on the music you mostly listen to and your sonic preferences. For me, the PS hit all my buttons. I preferred their more immediate (note that I would not consider them "in your face") and intimate presentation, which is not all that different from my Tekton monitors. With the ULFs, I have never heard the sense of soundstage scale as they portrayed, and the dynamics were.... simply stunning; you easily heard the boundaries of the hall / studio / room, etc., and you easily felt the transient response of drums and other percussion in a real, and unexaggerated way. Orchestral music flowed out with ease, as did Holly Cole.
Bottom line for me, I preferred the Perfect SET for it's Row 1-5 presentation over the Ulfs mid-hall presentation, but that's only me and my preferences, since I don't listen to massively complex music like orchestral fare.
What's even crazier, is the disparity between the costs of the two speakers.... that big gap makes no sense to me, but that makes the Perfect SET a screaming bargain!
Going back to the theme of this thread.... "goosebump time"?? Oh yeah!
Thanks again @teajay !
My biggest takeaway was that the Perfect SETS and the Ulfs are very different sounding speakers, and ultimately, which one you prefer will depend on the music you mostly listen to and your sonic preferences. For me, the PS hit all my buttons. I preferred their more immediate (note that I would not consider them "in your face") and intimate presentation, which is not all that different from my Tekton monitors. With the ULFs, I have never heard the sense of soundstage scale as they portrayed, and the dynamics were.... simply stunning; you easily heard the boundaries of the hall / studio / room, etc., and you easily felt the transient response of drums and other percussion in a real, and unexaggerated way. Orchestral music flowed out with ease, as did Holly Cole.
Bottom line for me, I preferred the Perfect SET for it's Row 1-5 presentation over the Ulfs mid-hall presentation, but that's only me and my preferences, since I don't listen to massively complex music like orchestral fare.
What's even crazier, is the disparity between the costs of the two speakers.... that big gap makes no sense to me, but that makes the Perfect SET a screaming bargain!
Going back to the theme of this thread.... "goosebump time"?? Oh yeah!
Thanks again @teajay !