Persona 9h vs S3 mk 2

It's almost 2:30 here in Portugal, and I just finished a 4-hour listening session. Are my ears bleeding? ... not even a little!

I listened to a variety of musical genres. Alternative rock (Fink, Shearwater), world music (Dead Can Dance), jazz (Mina Agossi, Cecile McLorin), classic (Berlioz), etc.
These speakers can play anything with ease.

 Now I go to bed with a smile on my face.

@audiotroy  Honestly the 9H is an incredible value (especially for dealer prices I am getting). I would say they offer up a lot of the detail and imaging that I heard on the far more expensive Contriva G2 (although the CG2 was definitely superior). The only thing that stops me from jumping on them is my lack of comfort with beryllium. I know its not necessarily toxic as a driver but I always have a fear of the driver cracking and spraying be atoms everywhere. If I spend car money on a speaker I just don't want to ever think about something like that.

Smodtactical 

You shouldn't worry at all about Beryillium cracking, exploding or anything like that. The only danger is in dealing with Beryillium is in the manufacturing stage. We have changed out the midrange driver and it is totally safe, Beryillium is toxic as a dust or gassous particle or any airborne fragment, that could be inhaled. 

A finished Beryillium driver is totally safe, we would not recommend that you eat one but your fears are unfounded.

Also as you are in Canda that is why your pricing is better, pretty sure that part of the costs are higher in the US due to transportation costs and probably US duties and customs fees which may be less with Nafta but most likely they add substantially to the US prices.

Also we wonder if the reason the Contriva G2  sounded better because it was on different gear perhaps? 

We has both the Polymer Audio Research a $68k loudspeaker with both Acuton's pure Diamond midrange and tweeters, in a 360 lb all metal enclosure with all silver wiring, and the Polymers didn't sound a lot better than the 9H.

We also listened to a $120k set of Kharma Exquisite Classiques and they were also very good, they weren't better than the Persona 9H either just different. 

The only issue we have with our current setup is that we want a bit warmer puncher bass but that may be possible with ARC Genesis. 

We haven't retuned our 9H in a while.

We find the marriage of the Persona with the T+A gear which is warm and very liquid with outstanding detail to be a fantastic combination.

You really should just get a pair there is nothing which can really better them for this kind of money.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ Persona dealers

@audiotroy I think you are right. Also if I did it, I would get it completely blacked out. Would look amazing.

Wow thats surprising about the polymer speaker. I wouldn't say the contriva g2 is n ight and day better than the persona 9H but definitely a step up... but even that is a meaningless statement as you said since the contriva g2 was connected to WAYYYY better gear and in a way better room.

Any opinion on YG acoustics newer gear like hailey or sonja 2.2 ?

The completely blacked out Persona looked great on the 3F.