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I intend to put the Devores back in this week and will report.
In fact, I listened for quite a while last night more critically than normal in preparation for the swap.
I listened to the Perspective2 Graphenes for an extended period of time at Axpona last year. The room was crowded and I never got to sit down despite returning to the room three times. Joseph is both popular and gets a lot of press buzz. So take my impression with a grain of salt since i never got in the sweet spot but I would classify the Joseph sound as very similar to the Spendor's which only makes sense since they have very similar design configurations.
The sad truth is that by and large, 95% of the rooms with various loudspeakers sounded more alike than different. Another room that really stood out besides the AN room was the Volti/Border Patrol/Triode Wire Labs room. The latest S'Phile has a review of Volti's new and most affordable speaker, the Razz. I would love to hear it. The beauty of the Volti room was the unrestrained "aliveness" character and yet with much better integration than I usually hear with horns.
Every design has a trade-off. The trade-off when the bass is taut with two 6-7" woofers is that the sound-to my ears-is just a bit hollow/thin. I believe it is analogous to a solid state amp with lots of negative feedback. A little bass slop is like a little euphonic distortion-it creates a sense of fullness. It has to be minuscule before it becomes more problematic than beneficial. My point being that the 10" paper woofer from SEAS in the O/93 coupled with a large mahogany front baffle creates a euphonic sense of fullness.
Btw, and sorry for digressing, but people complain about the price of the O/93. They either don't know or forget that John Devore uses solid machined copper posts, silver wire, and though he keeps the particulars to himself, he reports the use of "exotic" crossover caps and the entire crossover is handbuilt and hardwired, and the individual drivers are carefully matched. That and the artisinal cabinet construction account for the price.
I intend to put the Devores back in this week and will report.
In fact, I listened for quite a while last night more critically than normal in preparation for the swap.
I listened to the Perspective2 Graphenes for an extended period of time at Axpona last year. The room was crowded and I never got to sit down despite returning to the room three times. Joseph is both popular and gets a lot of press buzz. So take my impression with a grain of salt since i never got in the sweet spot but I would classify the Joseph sound as very similar to the Spendor's which only makes sense since they have very similar design configurations.
The sad truth is that by and large, 95% of the rooms with various loudspeakers sounded more alike than different. Another room that really stood out besides the AN room was the Volti/Border Patrol/Triode Wire Labs room. The latest S'Phile has a review of Volti's new and most affordable speaker, the Razz. I would love to hear it. The beauty of the Volti room was the unrestrained "aliveness" character and yet with much better integration than I usually hear with horns.
Every design has a trade-off. The trade-off when the bass is taut with two 6-7" woofers is that the sound-to my ears-is just a bit hollow/thin. I believe it is analogous to a solid state amp with lots of negative feedback. A little bass slop is like a little euphonic distortion-it creates a sense of fullness. It has to be minuscule before it becomes more problematic than beneficial. My point being that the 10" paper woofer from SEAS in the O/93 coupled with a large mahogany front baffle creates a euphonic sense of fullness.
Btw, and sorry for digressing, but people complain about the price of the O/93. They either don't know or forget that John Devore uses solid machined copper posts, silver wire, and though he keeps the particulars to himself, he reports the use of "exotic" crossover caps and the entire crossover is handbuilt and hardwired, and the individual drivers are carefully matched. That and the artisinal cabinet construction account for the price.