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Why don't Joseph Audio Pearls get more love from the audio press?

From Neil Gader's Best of Show speaker segment from RMAF:

Best Sound (Cost No Object)

I could have gone Vandersteen, Wilson, or YG but my heart kept returning to the Joseph Pearl 3 with Berkeley Audio Design sourcing Doshi Audio power. Even in a smallish room the sound was effortless, and brimming with musicality and warmth. Take my money, please.

How is it that the Pearls, in any iteration, have -- unlike their smaller siblings -- gotten virtually no reviews from the audio press yet almost always garner lush praise from them at shows?  I just don't get it, unless Jeff can't make enough of them and is too stingy to give a pair to a reviewer for a couple months.  What gives???
soix
prof
3,471 posts
 

I've wondered that out loud too.  The Pearls have garnered best of, or among best of show among a wide range of audio reviewers (and showgoers) for years, and it's strange they have never been reviewed.

Seems to me, given the stratospheric prices of many flagship speakers, they could be a giant killer.

Stereophile, where are you on this?

dmk_hifi
65 posts
 
Their speakers are reviewed regularly by Stereophile, most recently in 2018. As far as I recall, Joseph Audio always gets positive reviews there. 
soix OP
9,456 posts
 
Yeah, but never the Pearls.  Strange. 
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