YG Acoustics Hailey 1.2


Looking for opinions on the YG Hailey 1.2 and the entire YG line in general.
Thank you.
audiobrian
I have heard them on various occasions under "show conditions" and they have sounded great. Ditto the other models.
YG came to a high fi meeting to demo and talk about their speakers. None of us thought much of them....too bright, no soul.... The company offered big discounts to anyone who is interested in buying 2, but no takers.

I would find a pair of Polymer Audio MKS to listen to as they are exactly the same price as the YG speakers, even if I had to fly to find a pair.

If I was going to spend that much on a pair of loudspeakers, I would absolutely want to listen to this new speaker company which is due to shake up the established uber loudspeaker field.

There is no other loudspeaker in the world that offers this level of build quality, and attention to detail with the worlds best loudspeaker drivers: a pure diamond midrange, and a pure diamond tweeter, coupled with two custom long throw woofers and in an extremely well damped composite metal cabinet.

Everything in these speakers is the best possible parts from pure silver binding posts, pure silver wire, custom wound silver inductors, no stone has been left unturned to make these speakers perform at the highest level possible.

These speakers were the hit of the Newport audio show and everyone who has heard them have been blown away by the resolution, musicality, macro dynamics and just plain realism.
Polymer sounds like a good design, steep fourth order crossovers, keeping the midrange crossed over fairly low keeps the woofers out of the midrange, though I'm a little surprised they crossover to the tweeter at a somewhat lowish 2k. Makes the tweeter work a little harder than it needs to and maybe causes a slight loss in extension as noted in the Soundstage review. But it appears the designer properly focused on accurate on axis and off axis response across the frequency range (power response) which contributes to precise imaging. Using two long throw 6.5" woofers provides significant air moving capability, speed, and increased efficiency. Appears to be a good design that would work well in most rooms. But speakers costing north of $30K had better create some significant wow factor.