Poor Fritz


There’s no better value and no one as willing to make bespoke speakers out there than Fritz and these forums treat his speakers as if they cost $200K.
They don’t. They are remarkably affordable and yet potential customers put him through the absolute ringer, asking for custom features, going through 2 or 3 models of home auditions and maybe not even buying any of them.

Look, you buy what you want to buy, but I think not enough credit is given to the man or his speakers in terms of the overall value proposition and I think this is a disservice overall.  If you write a 5 page review, please keep this very much in mind that you are not reviewing Wilson or Focal's flagships.  Maybe he doesn't deserve quite the same scrutiny.

erik_squires
Enough of the Kenjit hate. Who really cares what he says. If someone buys based on his diatribe, then so be it. It is what it is. We are all adults here. Let your wallet do the talking.
kenjit
You ask who are the real trolls.
All members are agreed I believe: you and millercarbon.  All your posts are the same and many are irrelevant.
I'm going to stop reading them.  If we all do that, there will be no point in your writing them.
"I pledge, here and now, to ignore any and all posts by [insert troll]..."

Take this pledge into your heart and all future posts will never be sidelined again.


I had not heard of Fritz or his speakers until I read b_limo’s thread the other day.  Curious, I did slight research — he seems like a great guy, but then I checked the price for his Fritz Carrera 7-something (costs new $3500 for the pair).  They have a 7” driver paired with a small beryllium tweeter (if faulty memory serves me).  I thought, “How can a bookshelf-sized speaker create the quality or volume of sound that much larger speakers do?”  

There are many speakers in a similar price range, like the floor-stander Tekton Double Impact, with gobs of drivers of various sizes, so wouldn’t they blow away a small, albeit very good-sounding, speaker like the Fritz?  Obviously, hearing is believing, but I’m not in the market for speakers and I understand that Fritz sells direct and thus they would not be at a dealer.

It would seem to me that in some cases, size does matter.  
@bob540,
good questions!  The tweeter used in the Carrera is a high end, SB acoustics Beryllium tweeter.  A single one is close to $400.  That 7” paper driver is a Scan Speak Revelator and the are around $250. These are high end drivers and you will see them in other high end speakers that cost quite a bit more ($5,000+).

you are correct in assuming that bigger speakers with more drivers will be more impactful, they’ll have more dynamic punch so to speak.

The Carreras in a small to medium room though are plenty big enough.  I like loud music and dynamics as well, and the Carreras with a sub, in my small room, are awesome.  Tekton is making some cool speakers but most would be physically overbearing in my room.

Im also of the belief to buy the best, then bigger if you have the wallet!