New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2


Just wanted to update my prior thread where this topic may have gotten lost.  As many of you may know by now, Joseph Audio has come out with the new Pulsar Graphene 2. This new iteration of the venerable Pulsars has a graphene coated magnesium midrange-woofer cone, and the drive motor, suspension system, etc., have been revamped. From what I have been told, the upgrade is pretty significant ... the sound is fuller and has greater ease, yet is very resolved. Jeff Joseph advises that an upgrade path will be available for existing owners of the Pulsars, too. Also, note that the price quoted in the Soundstage piece was in Canadian dollars ... Jeff informs me that the price in USD is $8,999 per pair. I am eager to hear the new Pulsars.
rlb61

Rib61, couldn't disagree with you more. Synergy is not assembling a system where you have similar attributes it is combining a system whose parts differ to balance out the whole.

For example if you have very warm speakers, a warm sounding amp, a warm sounding source and cables you get mud.

Conversely a bright set of speakers, a bright or neutral amp, and a detailed source and cabling will equal bright hard and overly analytical.

We strive to balance a system so we usually use a warmer amp with the Paradigms,  such as a tube amp or warmer solid state, which is Naim, or Micromega or T+A.

Same with cabling add AQ or Nordost and you are going to have super bright top end with the Personas not going to sound good, we use Wireworld which is a bit warmer then the Nordost or Wireworlds we know because we sold both.

Add a set of Isoacoustics footers and The Little 3F sound like a $20k set of speakers.

Also you can add a good subwoofer to the 3F and the combined sound will be anything but thin or overly clinical.

Too many people like systems which don't sound anything like real music.


Dave and Troy

Audio Doctor NJ

Riaa willing to bet my house is worth more than yours, please let us know where in NJ you live?

Dude your Jersey City comments couldn’t be more wrong. Do the research

https://jerseydigs.com/99-hudson-luxury-condo-sales-strong-jersey-city/

Jersey City is valuable because of the location but also because it has great access to all parts of NJ and the Airport, it also has historical sights, and buildable land.

As per comparing Jersey City to Elizabeth and other parts of NJ you are way out of line, Jersey City is going through a major renaissance because it is a great place to live with high end restaurants like Talde, the Hutton and many, many others, new nightclubs are opening up, new Beerhalls and pubs, one of the best public High Schools is in Jersey City, as well as critically acclaimed culinary programs and film programs with a huge arts community and new galleries sprouting up.

As Jersey City is the largest City in NJ there aren't many places we wouldn't want to go, however, with any city there are still bad parts, the entire city is gentrifying super quickly now.


As per taking away at this point we can sell almost any line we want. We can get Luxman their gear is excellent and we have never said it wasn’t.

We did find that Coda CSib to sound even better than the Hegel and Luxman gear we were selling at the time. We stopped selling Coda for a while as they are upgrading their integrated with a new digital card and we wanted to get the latest one.

There have been others here who love the Persona line check out those posts, there are many fans and detractors of any and every line of products on audiogon.

A speaker which offers tremendous resolution and is a bit finicky is going to be a polarizing product the same way that Vandersteen and Harbeth are loved because they invariably sound musical while others find them recessed and rolled off.

Dave and Troy

Audio Doctor NJ

@audiotroy ... I guess the definition of "real music" is in the ears of the listener.