Audio Artistry Beethoven - anybody has heard?

A little over a month ago I had the immense pleasure of sitting in Siegfried Linkwitz's living room listening to his Beethovens. I have never heard such a combination of dynamic impact and long-term relaxing sound. There may be other speakers that do a few things better, but as an across-the-board package the Beethovens are probably unique. And the bass! Omigod lovely pitch definition all the way down. They will spoil you - you may never enjoy box woofers again. The Beethovens have the clarity of an excellent midrange driver all the way down. If I had to pick a nit, I'd say the extreme top end was only very good, not excellent.

I'm a hard-core planar/dipole enthusiast myself - I've built several dipole systems, and I now own and sell full-range electrostatics and another brand of dynamic dipole. I've owned quite a few dipoles over the years. But I've never heard a dipole system with the dynamics of the Beethovens - as far as I could tell, no compression or limitations at any volume level I could stand.

Personally, I don't normally enjoy listening real loud, but Siegfried feels that music should be reproduced at its original volume level. That included the AC/DC cut we put on! But the Beethovens sound wonderful at medium and low volumes as well, which is where I listen.

The presentation of the Beethovens is different from that of conventional speakers. Something is missing. It's the box. After getting used to it, conventional speakers may well never sound acceptable to you again.

have heard the beethoven subs with the dvorak towers.the subs are a large step up over the dvorak subs, but not at the level of the martin logan monsters.

Heard them at several shows a few years back. Don't remember specifics, but I know they were some of the best sound of the show each time I heard them.

Heard them briefly at a reviewer´s home. Sounded clean and
clear,I think they would be easy to live with,main problem
though, was the perspective,e.g. does any singer have a
mouth that is two feet wide. That´s a common problem with
dipol speakers. Just my opinion.

I listed the Beethoven when I replied to the old Audiogon topic:

Top Ten Speakers of All Time?

I feel the same way now, and although am a huge Soundlab fan, the Audio Artistry Beethoven is the first box speaker I auditioned that has the magic of an electrostatic. Add to that, the bass is phenomenal, the soundstage is huge and the listenability is wonderful.

They would certainly be on my short list as choice for reference speaker.