Blade vs S5 vs Avior vs Hansen's Prince E's

Yyzsantabarbara,

What did you think of the model T's

I think they sound damn good for the money, just wish they were better looking.

Off to the Montreal show, its in 10 days or so.

I heard them in Bel Air, CA in the same room as the Magico Q7. I was with a group from the L.A. Audio Society. Both the Model T's and Magico Q7 were hooked up to the Bryston 28B-SST2 (what I went to hear). The Model T sounded really good and the price was very well received by the audio dudes that were there. The striking thing for me was how pissed of a lot of the people were on the Q7's price. They said that the Q7 was not worth approx. 30x the price of the Model T. I would take the Q7 in a second if it were free over the Model T. Some said they liked the Model T more but I think the high price just bugged them too much and they made a protest statement.

Team 212 Sceanas are not bright at all, the 3.2 with the original ribbon tweeters are actually a tad recessed in the extreme treble, I own a pair!

The blades stuggle? In a realistically sized room they will play louder then you can stand without compression,

In my 26 by 20 by 10 room they can play louder then I can tolerate! In last years NY audio show we were in actually too large a room for even the Blades to work well in, this room was about 40 feet long, but the real problem was that it was two rooms connected and there was a huge suckout where the two rooms became one, we had great sound at the previous show in a large but much better sounding room.

Aviors based on what? Smaller soundstage then the Blades, not a Coherent, and not a point source, other then some really heroic cabinet construction in what ways would you thin the Aviors would be better?