Volti does it again!

I picked up a pair of Razz over the holidays from Greg.  All I can say is all of the rave reviews from Doyle and other reviewers are spot on.  I love my Coherent 10's but I wanted something that could play on a bigger scale but with refinement, and boy do these deliver.  The cool part is the Razz are roughly the same cabinet size as my Coherents, but they weigh a lot more.

Had an audio buddy come over who had never heard horns.  We popped in the latest Slowdive album into the CD player.  He said it felt like he was back at the concert he saw them at last year.  The music comes alive at lower volumes than my Coherents or my Zus.  I'm really impressed with the 12" bass woofer on the Razz.  You play an album with really deep, compressed bass, like the Panda Bear album Buoys, and that woofer doesn't even flinch.  

@whoopycat  now that’s what I’m talking about! Is there anything better than a speaker that makes you jump up and get excited? When I brought mine home that house was shaking for days, just couldn’t help it.

I live outside Tampa and was at the show on Sat.

I thought the ($11,750) Lucera’s sounded fantasic also. Really, really good and in my top 3 small rooms that I heard on Saturday. Amazing for being in a hotel room with no treatement.

I had two hifi buddies drop by after the show and another one today and all 3 of them are seasoned audiophones and all 3 were very impressed with what they were hearing which were my Rivals.

I’m still thrilled with my system and have no desire for anything else. Sure I heard better systems at the show but there weren’t many and they all cost more, some a lot more.

I’m running a rolled Primaluna Evo 300i and the Rivals are sitting on Townshend Podiums.I listen to mostly classic rock and usually pretty loud or loud as I like to feel my music - but the bass isn’t overdone either like a few speakers I heard at the show. I’m 99% vinyl and don’t own a DAC/streamer yet. 1% is CD.

Here is another vid I came across:

The Lucera sounded fantastic…incredibly lifelike presentation without the need for insane volume. 
 

Since all of Greg’s speakers are custom built to order… why should they be returnable?  And given their weight and the cost of return shipping, would anyone feel that it was economical to return them vs reselling them?

Maybe he could have a return option with a shipping cost both ways deduct and a 35% restocking fee to cover their resale as b stock. 
 

Either way, his policy isn’t hurting his sales as people love his speakers and service so he should probably just keep doing what he has been doing. 

@soix 

@snapsc 

In recent years I've brought in a few very well regarded speakers that I had high hopes for but when compared to what I was replacing they didn't make the cut. Some sold off, some returned. Adjusting Volti's policy would possibly result in far more business which seems like a win win. But for now, no no.

I agree with @soix. I'm no longer interested in buying these speakers, new. Too great a risk. @snapsc can see, then, at least two here on the forum who will not buy his speakers, so perhaps Volti is at capacity and doesn't need our business --good for them, I'd say. But we prove wrong the idea that "his policy isn't hurting his sales." And if there are two of us saying it here -- and not just to be snarky or make a point (we're not) -- it's reasonable to imagine there are many others who agree. 

In the long run, Volti may not care about this reaction. Or maybe there will be a point coming when sales are down or the buzz has cooled off. That will be when these comments resurface and the policy gets a second thought.