Spatial Audio open baffle speakers, who has them? Worthwhile change from Maggies?

I just received my X5 speakers this past Friday and have put about ten hours on them so far so I know they will sound even better with breakin.

But I have to agree with others that these speakers are really special.  They have a very large soundstage which is deep and they are very dynamic, effortless and coherent.  They really nail female vocals and the tweeters are very smooth yet detailed.

I have them about 8 feet apart toed in so they point about a half foot outside my seating position which is ten feet from the speakers.  I'll experiment with a little more toe in to see what sounds best.

I've had several green mountain audio speakers in the past fifteen years which were also very transparent and delivered a huge soundstage but these are definitely a level higher and more dynamic and involving even at lower volumes. The Green mountains were one of my favorites up until these surpassed them.

I have two rel storm subs which I'm not even using at the moment as I feel I do not need them with the X5s.  But after they've broken in a bit I'll turn on the rels and decide.  I have the sub level on the X5's at about the 9/10 position and the bass is excellent so not sure what the rels will add but will try them a little later.

I'm driving them with a pathos twin towers 30 watts/channel hybrid class A integrated and at a little over half volume on the indicator it is more than loud and dynamic enough.  The combo of this amp with these speakers and RCA blackplate input tubes is very addictive.  I'm also using audience au 24sx interconnects, ven haus chela speaker cables and a metrum onyx DAC and use a modified wyred for sound sonos connect and play cds as well.  Next update is maybe the Innuous mini streamer.

@uberwaltz and @mrotino  What speakers have you heard in the past, especially boxed/carbinet speakers and how do they compare to the spatials ?

Well I own the X3s and here is a short list of what I've owned in the past few years

Klipschorns
GR Research Super V
Forte IIIs
Wilson Sophias
Reference 3a Grand Veena
Piega P10
Von Schweikert VR4 Gen III HSE
Green Mountain Audio C3
Magnepan 1.6 and 3.5

I would say the Spatials are as good as anything I've owned at most things, and quite a bit better at some. They have the most articulate and pitch correct bass response of any speaker I have owned. They are open and boxless sounding like maggies, but with far superior soundstage depth and dynamics. They most closely resemble the GMA Continuums in tonal balance and transparency. Their dynamics most closely resemble that of the mighty K horns. About 90% of what they do.

Hope that helps.

Oz

I haven't owned that many but have owned the below:

Green Mountain audio callisto
Green Mountain audio continuum 1.5
Green Mountain audio eos/Hx with 2 rel subs  - most current setup
Merlin VSM
Condor Acoustics SC 7 (Older high quality standmount)

I belong to an audio club in CT so have listened extensively to many excellent speakers such as Revel Studio, Verity Audio Parsifal, Spendor, Thiel CS 2.7.
A friend of mine in the audio club recently purchased the larger Open Baffle Bastani Mondali and that got me hooked on the open baffle sound.

I have always been a big fan of the Green Mountain Audio speakers (they were not well known) and like others have mentioned the Spatials do most similarly sound like them but definitely at a higher level especially in regards to bass/midrange coherence, detail, ability to play well at lower volumes and just plainly put out an overall much larger fulfilling soundstage.

All of the above are very good speakers but I could not emotionally connect with them to a great extent other than the Green Mountain Audios and I've finally found a speaker that in my opinion surpasses them rather easily.  This of course is just my opinion.

Hard to recall/remember all of the speakers I have owned but many just failed to cut it for me and were always , well these are ok but.....

Focal
B&W 803
Usher
Wilson
Kef
Monitor Audio
Joseph Audio RM33SE
Maggies.

Memory does not even recall most model number numbers that's how special they were not... lol.

However in my room the box speakers were always just that, boxes, never lit my fire in any way.

Then the Maggies came along and they were a huge step in the right direction for myself.
But the Spatials are the Maggies on steroids and then some.
Same type of open non box space but more of everything.
Stage is wider and deeper, bass is so tight and deep and extended and very easy to discern notes not just oh well that's bass.
But the mids where vocals and acoustic guitar live is to die for.

So yes you could say I am pretty happy so far.