Salk owners -- any interest in a more sensitive Salk model?


I wrote recently to Jim about more sensitive Salk monitors to play even better with lower watt tube gear and he is thinking about the question. There are issues involving accuracy, he told me, and of course will only put his name on speakers that will meet the high standards he's established.

I have 60 watt monos and they work well on my 87 db 8 ohm SS 6Ms. Still, you should hear the lovely headroom I get when I put my Klipsch RP 600M's on them. They are not in the league of my Salks, don't get me wrong, but they make me think.

A lot of people are now pretty high on Devore speakers, and I know Devore has put effort into making his speakers pretty. Still, I think Salk speaker are more beautiful and, given the cost of building things in Brooklyn (where Devore is) I know that Salk (in lower cost Michigan) could make a better looking sensitive speaker — if they met his standards.

What do you think? Interested in a 93 or 96db sensitivity Salk speaker?
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Salk is a company, Fritz is one-person shop. The heads of companies, even smaller ones, may not do some of the labor personally, right?

What does it matter if Salk or any other speaker manufacturer does not make their own cabinets? Am I missing something?

@b_limo 

 

Not sure if or why it matters,  but Jim has his wife and a couple of other employees. That’s it.  Company would be a stretch. Very very small business. Cabinets all in house from the cutting to the veneer and finish.