Anyone heard the new Reynaud Trente's

I own the Trente's and also a pair of spendor ls3/5a's. I have heard the 1/2's several times but do not own them. I have only had the Trente's for a few weeks and use them in a second system as such I have not formed a whole opinion yet. I love the Spendor sound but feel the Trente are very special in what they can do. I am not very good with the adjectives but you will want to try and hear these speakers before making a decision.

Glide3 I thank-you very much for your input. I realize these speakers are very new, therefore there is not a lot of customers out there with them as yet. Again thanks, Ted

A_e_watkins, My pleasure...please feel free to e-mail me if you want a more complete description. kapcm@earthlink.net Regards-Kurt

I own the SP1/2 and expect to listen to the Trentes at a dealer's tomorrow. Will report back.

Okay, I'm afraid I can't give you much guidance on this. The conditions under which I heard the Trentes were so different from my normal system with the Spendors, and the audition so brief, that I don't want to jump the gun on anything. I think the Trentes have a special quality about them, an organic, natural-sounding midrange that I found very appealing. The midrange of the Spendor is also its strong suit, of course. Both are highly musical in this regard but they have different characters (which I wish I had a vocabulary for). Neither is particularly a champ at imaging or detail, but excel at tone. Based on what I heard, the Trente is not as full-range as the Spendors. The bass seemed lacking in pitch definition and was a bit distracting, but many factors could be responsible for this initial impression. I'd like to have the Trentes at home for a while, and may try to do so. By the way, this audition was part of a shootout with the Silverline 15 and the Refernce 3A MM de Capo. All three were outstanding (within the limitations of small monitors) but very different from one another. I liked the Trentes best but narrowly. The Silverlines do imaging and soundstaging like nobody's business, while the Reference 3A have a smoothness in the midrange that may more than make up for shortcomings elsewhere. All are easy to drive, I believe. How can you go wrong?