Looking for a good full range floor stander

audiotroy: you appear to be not "au fait" with the latest (and probably greatest) offering from Salk, the SS 9.5, which takes the woofer from the Encore and combines it in a larger cabinet with dual passive radiators.  Salk continues to up his game.  He also uses one of the few listenable beryllium tweeters in some of his models.

paliden, Just because audiotroy decided to bad mouth Salk speakers doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check them out. I think he has a list of owners who are willing to audition their Salk speakers. Perhaps there are some near you. I know he has many happy customers.

No rja we didn’t bad mouth Salk speakers, we heard them and thought they sounded good but not spectacular at both CAP and Axpona.

Also you can't demo Salk speakers he builds to order, you have to buy them on faith.


Mjyostyn, after 30 years of professional audio sales and design can assure you we abolustely know what we are talking about.

Every large flat panel speaker will have a terrible image because of defraction, the larger your panel in order to have any lower bass frequncies at all means you have a giant surface area to which all of your frequencies will bounce off of, we had Quad ELS 63, ESL pro, Magneplaner 3.5 over the years, and none of them could throw a realisticly sized image not to mention selling Apogee, and Martin Logans for years.

Then you have the issue with dynamics, a large panel can not move air with the force of a dynamic driver. Play a pair of Wilsons audio loudspeakers at realitstic concert levels and put on a drum recording, what you get sounds real, the panels don’t have the accelerative impact of sealed box with dynamic drivers.

If you like your lead singer to be excessively tall and wide, please enjoy your perverted view of reality

Mykyosyn, good speakers we like: Vimberg, Rockport, Paradigm Personas, Wilsons, Kef Blade and Rererence, Legacy, Focal. .

Again Twoleft ears, you need greater efficiency and deep bass to fill up such a large room only Salks Encore 3 version is really suitable.

You CAN demo Salk speakers. As I said, he has a list of speaker owners that are willing to let interested folks come over for a listen.

Audiotroy, Your know-it-all attitude gets a bit wearing.
Please remember, your opinions are merely opinions not fact.
I know you have plenty of experience with audio, that’s great.
But please stop dictating your beliefs and tone it down.

Generally I have no problem with dealers or manufacturers posting here when they have something to offer.