New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2

@erik_squires & @prof Erik’s prediction was mistaken. They are slightly more efficient, say 2dB.  They also sound better at lower volume. 

Compare @diminches vs. @fsonicsmith comments.  They may not be for everyone. I do not think increased resolution diminishes musicality. 4K TVs do not have worse or better color than 1080p TVs. Also, they are in my home with my electronics, not in crowded rooms with show conditions. Some people, not me, like electrostatics.  Martin Logans at shows sound either wonderful or horrible. I hate B&Ws at every show I have attended. 

@rib61 They are new. BTW, the original Perspectives were always and still are a great speaker.   I do not know about percentages. Let me say they are the cure for upgrade fever. They are everything I have been looking for in a speaker, without taking price into account. 

@erik_squires & @prof Erik’s prediction was mistaken. They are slightly more efficient, say 2dB. They also sound better at lower volume.

Awesome! Of course, this may be a custom driver, with different impedance and sensitivities than listed at Seas.

Same tweeter, but not quite as bright. Minor distinction. 

Different cross-over

fsonicsmith

I certainly would not argue with what you find movingly musical or not. I’ve sat next to people who loved the sound of a speaker where I was left uninvolved.
(In fact just today I listened to the big flagship Monitor Audio speakers and some Magicos and they just didn’t do it for me).

You know I love both the Devores (that you own) and the Joseph speakers. I get why a DeVore owner wouldn’t go for the JA sound - they are really different. And that’s what drove me nuts deciding between them: I like both but they are so different!

Unlike you I find myself completely trasnsfixed by the Perspectives. I’ve listened to them for up to 7 hours straight (auditioning at home) and never got enough of them. If I had found them to be strictly “audiophile speakers” for the head I wouldn’t be enthusiastic. But what won me over in initial store demos is how well they played absolutely every genre I could throw at them, from classical, to jazz, to van halen, to The Commodores, to electronica, whatever. They satisfied my audiophile side in terms of transparency and tonal accuracy, but had dynamics, juicy mids and rich punchy bass that made them a “fun” speaker as well.

They certainly weren’t perfect. Occasionally the bass could be a bit overblown, and they don’t have the same papery, filled out organic tone as the Devores, but I did find them a head AND heart speaker.