New Joseph Audio Pulsar Graphene 2

Back on track:  the horizontal off-axis response on the Perspective2s is excellent. My Perspective2s are in a large room used for multiple purposes. They sound great no master where you are sitting, standing or walking around. There sound-the-corner test from “Get Better Sound” passes with high marks. 

The reason I mention this is that it is a huge advantage over electrostatic speakers. I love Sound Labs and Sanders 10e, but the sweet spot is very narrow, sometimes like placing your head in a vice. You move half a foot and the SQ is lost. 

I only read up to page 5, but I have to chime in.  I spent a week in Newport NJ which is adjacent to Jersey City.  Jersey City was okay, Newport was superior.  I felt relatively safe in Jersey City downtown at night.  I'm from Los Angeles and was a commercial real estate appraiser for 32 years.  I know when I should stay away from an area.  Jersey City was okay to me.  Long Island City is undergoing a Newport like reconstruction. Maybe the adjacent Queens area will evolve to be more like Jersey City.  

The discussion which includes posters who think that 2 way speakers should be cheaper because they are less expensive to manufacture lack bottom end and dynamic sound are out to lunch.  My friend who is a cable manufacturer has a smaller size listening room 18X15X8 and filled on the front and side walls with gear and LPs.  He built a pair of quazi-folded/transmission line monitors with a dome tweeter and 5" mid-woofer.  His bass response is down to 27 Hz -2 db.  You can almost feel the deep bass.  Imaging is superb.  Dynamics are as much as the room allows for.  My 5 way Legacy speakers have a bigger sound in a much bigger room.  They don't image as well, don't have as extended highs and the bass drops off rapidly under 30 Hz despite 6-12" woofers.   His design, materials and execution are obviously superior to $13K speakers retail.  Why shouldn't he sell his speakers for at least half as much?   

I've heard some outstanding monitor speakers in moderate size rooms.  Why can't more large speakers sound as good?  I've heard big speakers I crave for but are really expensive ($50K+) 

(P.S. Never heard a Magico speaker I want after hearing them 15+ times, never want to go back to stats after 20 years, 5 pairs,  don't want inefficient speakers).  

BTW, I have owned the USHER AUDIO CP-8571 II DIAMOND.  It is a good speaker. The Perspective and the Perspective2 are significantly better. They are in a different league all together. 

markalarsen  Narrow sweet spot is number one reason I stopped having stats 25 years ago.  Number two was bass.  Number three was dynamics.  Three strikes and you're out (not mentioning the power/current needed to drive them).  I like the sound of stats I had, especially the Acoustat 2&2s.  

I've also never liked a narrow sweet spot.  And it's not only about allowing more than one listener to experience good sound.  I find if a sweet spot is really narrow it's just bothersome in of itself.

It's why, when plasma and LCD TVs were duking it out years ago I much preferred plasma, which looked essentially the same from all angles, where the LCD technology shifted tonal/colour/contrast balance when you moved even a bit off axis.  Something about the sheer finickiness and unsteadiness of that effect irked me.

Similarly I dislike head-in-a-vice speakers, Martin Logan stats being a perfect example (I've heard the majority of ML models and my pal has ML hybrid stat speakers).   The "illusion" is just so easily collapsed with even mild movement of the head.

So pretty much all speakers I have bought over the years have maintained similar soundquality/imaging over a relatively wide sweet spot.  (Audio Physic, Thiel CS 3.7/2.7, Waveform, Hales, MBL and many others).

Though I still harbor background thoughts of Devore speakers some day, one sticking point was the more directional high frequencies for those speakers (due to the beaming of the woofer and waveguided tweeter).

The Joseph speakers are a good match for my circumstances as I have some pretty limited set up possibilities in terms of distance to the listener (between 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 feet or so).  The Josephs are flexible and don't need much distance at all to sound coherent.