At Axpona the Sopras on a Naim Uniti Nova sounded very good, but that system was not amazing.
The Golden Ear's at Axpona sounded amazing, the system was not a super expensive one but we think it was more expensive than the Nova however, the speakers cost almost 1/3rd the price
The take away was the Golden Ear Tritron 1R were spectacular at Axpona.
We were so impressed by the demo there we signed up to be Golden Ear dealers on the spot after having mixed feelings about them for years.
After having our demo pair for a few weeks they are very impressive, not as transparent as we would like, but smooth, big soundstage, fantastic bass.
On a few passages they were spooky as certain effects and voices on some tracks just popped out of the loudspeakers.
As a home theater rig again spectacular.
The Golden Ear Tritron 1R are just an insane bargain and they do give more expensive loudspeakers a run for their money.
On our last client demo we compared the Tritron 1R to the Legacy Signatures, the Paradigm Persona 3F and the PSB T3, each speaker had a few strengths, the Golden Ears won for price, performance, deep bass and of course stunning value, the only issue is they come in one color gloss black. We were going to switch in the Kef Reference 3 but ran out of time.
The take away is the Golden Ear Trion 1R are vastly superior to the older non reference models and the fact that a $6k loudspeaker can easily hang with $10k and above models is testment to what a great job Sandy Gross did with the new models.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Golden Ear, Legacy, PSB, Paradigm, KEF dealers