Has anyone listened to or auditioned Verity's new Arindale speaker ?

@mijostyn You’re basing your perception of the whole brand on one model.  Have you heard any or the <$20k Verity versus Sonus Faber?  If not I suggest you do so rather than make blind and ignorant statements.  I’ve heard both Verity and SF speakers in the same price range.  They’re both very good, but I’d take Verity any day over SF.  

migostyn,

magico are definitely not the best speakers out there, that beryllium Tweeter is bright and edgy to monitor audio platinum ll are much better, that MPD Tweeter is much more three-dimensional natural and open and the Magico are way overpriced, I compared the A3 and the A5 to the monitor audio platinum 200 ll and 300 ll and the monitor audio were much better, all using the same equipment in the same room.

@garebear 

I would love to hear the Verity speakers to see how they compare to my Rockport Avior ii. Have you auditioned the Rockports and Verity’s ? If so which one did you like better? Happy listening !

Ron

@havocman , I have only listened to S and Q series speakers so I can not comment about A series.

Build quality is easy to determine. You can see it, even in a photograph to an extent. Sonic quality is another issue. You can not rely on what anyone tells you and that goes for my opinion also. I can't listen to the speaker in your room. When you say "too bright", that is an amplitude issue. Amplitude response can change just by moving the speaker a foot! What does "too bright" mean. Is the treble too loud or is the midrange too soft? Maybe the listener is used to listening to a system that is too dull. Trying to say any type of driver sounds like such and such is incorrect. There are too many ways to change amplitude from the room, to the crossover, to the type of amp being used, to the listener. Beryllium tweeters can be constructed to play extremely loud with very low distortion for a dynamic driver.

Lastly, with high resolution digital EQ capability, resolution in 1 Hz increments I can make any speaker sound like anything. With a modern digital processor amplitude response is completely plastic and can be tuned in the environment the speaker is going to live in.

I can not make any loudspeaker image correctly. There are very few systems that can. Most of use have never heard a system that does. That includes all those fanboys with the flowery descriptions of "wide and deep" soundstages. The sound stage depends on the recording. For the first 17 years of my audiophile life I had never heard a system that imaged a the state of the art. When I did my jaw must have dropped three feet and that moment is burned into my head forever. Next was creating a system for myself that could do the same thing. That took another 15 years or so, another $150,000 and hours and hours of screwing around and learning what it was that made a system perform at that level. On the bright side you do not have to spend a million dollars to get there. Excluding the room and at current prices you can probably get reasonably close for $100,000 and all the way there for $200,000. Anything more than that I consider to be "luxury" audio just for bragging rights. 

mijostyn,

I have done it for a lot less my system is worth $70,000 and it sounds incredible very three-dimensional wide deep sound stage you can hear everything even way in the background very black silent background, so when you choose the right stuff 70 to 100,000 will do it. no need to go to 200,000.