Stillpoints and reference-level speakers

Tbg, Wilson is not for me either, but I think its more an issue of preference than quality. My speakers are the TAD References One. The stock footers are simple cones, solid but nothing fancy. As good as the TADs are, I find that they cannot do some of the nice things that I hear with (for example) the Phy-hp30 driver in an open baffle driven by 10 watts of high quality SET. Maybe putting Stillpoints under the TADs would take me further away from the things I admire in those Phy-hp drivers.

Hi Psag,
The TAD and PHY-HP30 are so different in concept and design I see no way for them to sound similar at all. The PHY is very unique. They aren't even meant to be driven by the same type of amplifiers. There re from two different worlds .
Charles,

Psag, I very much like the Phy-hp 30s, but as much as I like and respect Andrew and as often as I have listened to them at shows, I do not like the TADs other than the smallest one.

Of course, I have never tried the Ultra Fives under and the TADs, but I would be shocked were this not a big improvement.

Yo2tup, I got the Ultra Minis in today. They are a lighter sound than the Fives. I have tried a Five on top the line stage and another on the amp. Neither was quite what I had expected given prior experience. I will say nothing more now. An entire set of Ultra Minis is less money than one Ultra Five.

Robert will not give out demos for reviews.!!???? A breath of fresh air in this review crazy audio hobby.

Remember years ago SR Apex wire gave a wall to wall / 40 foot high / 100 miles deep stage with life like images only to read now the stage is deep/higher and planet to planet wide.

Go back even 3 years ago and read the reviews. Crazy writing.

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