Scansonic mb serie

I was recently at a Scansonic demo. They had the MB-1.5/2.5/3.5 and Raidho X1's. These MB series are designed by Mike B who also designed the Raidho series BUT with a budget in mind. For the money they are very nice sounding speakers. But in my opinion they do not sound like the X1. That said X1 does sound very similar to the D1's (about 90% of the D1's).

Now I am a Raidho owner that started with the D1's and now have D2's. Before Raidho I owned Dynaudio C1 and C1 signatures. Also in my opinion nothing has the speed/clarity and transparency of Raidho's including Scansonic.

That said all speakers at the time had less than 30hrs on them. About an hour after I left I started getting messages from everyone there that the 2.5's really opened up and sounded totally different and much better. Since I haven't gone back I can't say what they really sound like. The following day Raidho announced the X3's. I want to go back when my dealer gets the X3's and broken in to compare to my D2's.

I know the X1 and the D5. Would love to get that kind of transparency for a better price. My current standmounts are equivalent to the X1, albeit larger, but I miss having decent LFs. The MB 3.5 just might fit the bill.
Did you ever get to go back and listen to them after they had more time on them? It's really, really hard to get a picture of a speaker with only 30 hours of break-in. I know that I heard the C1.1 after listening for quite a while to the X1 and the X1 bested it almost in every aspect. The problem was that the C1.1 only had 50 hours on them and Raidhos take forever to break in.

I did hear the MB 2.5's with 70hrs and they sounded almost like a different speaker (for the better that is). We didn't put the 3.5's back to compare but my dealer said they sound much better than with 30 hrs. For the money the Scansonic is hard to beat.

I do agree about the Raidho break in. Mine took a good 550 - 600 hrs. But it was worth it IMO.

Thank you for the feedback. A dealer about 2 hours away will get them in about 2 weeks. I'll give him about another two weeks to break them in and then will probably visit him.