How did I choose the verity's? Basically by violating every audio buying rule I've ever lived by.
Basically only buy after extensive auditioning including in my own house with my own electronics and recordings.
Instead I haven't even seen them in person yet and only heard them on YouTube (although excellently recorded and sounded fantastic). Crazy crazy crazy.
Like most people here I couldn't begin to count the times I've auditioned raved about equipment and thought it was junk.
There's a precedent though - I went to a CEDIA show once and bought a complete home theater system including speakers from Cary Audio. Never heard a note but had faith in the brand (and a nice discount). The sound was sublime from day one and one of the best buys I've ever made.
Since I live in the Metro Baltimore and D.C. Area we have more high end stores than most. I auditioned Sonus Faber, Dynaudio, B&W, Vienna Acoustics, Totem, Golden Ear, Audionote, Proac etc.
I didn't find any of them terribly thrilling for under $10k. The few that sounded well rounded in attributes were too aggressive/fatiguing sounding (as seems to be the fashion these days). This was one reason I started this thread.
You all led me to the Veritys which seemed to have all the attributes I was looking for in spades. There were lots of well detailed reviews that were almost unanimous in describing the kind of sound I was looking for and in agreement with what you all were saying here.
Then desperate for anything I listened to them on YouTube with headphones in a very well recorded video. The sound was stunning and very much in line with the consensus.
Finally I called Verity to find out what I could from the sales guy and ended up speaking with one of the founders who even had the same last name. Yes the stars were lining up on this one.
Of course the Veritys are much more expensive than the speakers I was auditioning so I'd expect them to be better. Fortunately there was a used pair on Agone that was at the top end of my budget.
So I pulled the trigger - but somehow I'm fully expecting this to be a satisfying blind buy like the Cary gear. We'll soon see.
