A brief review of GR Research Bully

@sns as we know it applies to all consumer goods...everything is built to a "price point". Manufacturers probably have very good data telling them about how many units they will sell at any price and how raising that price hurts sales. Figure there are "sweet spots" for price vs. sales numbers vs. profit margin for everything, including speakers. It is crazy in a way. Given the labor involved, it can't add more than maybe $100 to $200 or so to use better crossover components or air core inductors, especially since manufacturers could buy in bulk) yet if that raises the selling price above their "target" they won't do it.  We as consumers need to do our homework. No, not everyone is very technically minded understanding all the graphs and what they mean, not everyone is an engineer, many are liberal arts majors and such. But even so, it isn't a bad idea to learn some basics. Good luck with your speaker mods. 

I've got the NX-Oticas; built them with some skilled help.

I would not trade them for any other speaker I've heard and yes, I've heard the Magico M9s pushed by ~$750k of top-shelf electronics.

I’ve got the NX-Oticas; built them with some skilled help.

I would not trade them for any other speaker I’ve heard and yes, I’ve heard the Magico M9s pushed by ~$750k of top-shelf electronics.

My intro to GR was the double trouble sub kit, which i’ve been using with a variety of speakers over the years....Built out the NX-Studio kit just out of curiosity (not like i had the space or needed another speaker in the house to enrage the spouse), A/B’d it against speakers that costed/costs magnitudes more...the value proposition with these kits is just hard to believe. They tend to scale up really well as the front end electronics get better as well.

Sounds like the OP has a good thing going with his larger room, choice of front-end electronics and the bully.

P.S. Danny’s only sin is continuing to tweak certain speakers from some other brands that some dudes found depressing (continuing to ship them to GR in pursuit of happiness again)...tends to get the salesmen for such depressing speakers up in arms, "How dare you make him happy again???!!!", sez the sales guy.

While I don't own any GR Research products, I am a fan of Danny's work.

I have helped upgrade several pair of speakers using his upgrade kits, and everyone has been a fairly appreciable improvement.

Some of the Danny haters on YT tend to make comments like; maybe that is just the way the original designers "voiced" the speaker. 

Sorry, but no. Large dips and spikes in the frequency response, poor phase relationships at the crossover points, the acoustic centers of the individual drivers being too far apart, etc, are not choices in voicing the speakers. They are poor engineering. Not is poor cabinet bracing, electrolytic caps and iron core inductors.

I've upgraded more speakers over the years than I can remember, and everything Danny does is just good acoustic engineering practices.