Does anyone have any experience with PSB Speakers

I had never heard of PSB speakers but bought a pair of the original PSB Stratus tower speakers (precursor to the Stratus Gold) a few weeks ago locally as it was just too good of a deal to pass up and some audiophile friends highly recommended that I buy them. And I am glad I did because they are great speakers - very detailed, open and transparent. Lively and with lots of bass. It is a very clear and neutral-sounding speaker. I would higly recommend the Stratus series. I have not heard other PSB models but the PSB Stratus is a wonderful speaker!

I have a pair of Image t5. They are on the warm side, laid back, smooth, very acceptable overall sound for the money. I would say that their strengths are in the small foot print, slim cabinets, and the amount of bass impact they can produce. They go lower than 40hz, and that's great for bassy music and movies. To me, it is an excellent value. It really depends on what you like to listen to.

Since Paul Barton is a musician, his speakers sound realistic on acoustic instruments - especially the strings.

I really dig them. You will probably like them too, but you should definitely hear them b4 buying, as there are many many dealers - you should be able to find a dealer near you.

If you can't, then buy clean ones used, and if you don't like them, you can resell them, and not lose too much money, if at all.

The Imagine T2 towers are probably the 'sweet spot' in terms of bang for buck. $3500/pr. I have listened to them back and forth with the Synchrony 1's, and yes the $5500 Synch's are better, but $2K better would be an individuel call based on the rest of the system, and the room. Soundstage is deep, wide, focused. My dealer has Vandy's, Totem, Vienna Acoustics, but the PSB's are his go-to until budget gets a lot higher. I also listened to the Vandy 'Treo' (I think, it was $6K a pair), and they sounded good, but had AR amps, and a high end vinyl setup playing through them, making the system-cost 2 or 3 times as high, so not a fair comparison. There certainly wasn't that much of an improvement in sound imho.

A good friend has a pair of Synchrony One's. Extremely well made, moderately sized floorstander that really fails to move me sonically. They simply don't sound like real music and epitomize what I would call a "hifi" sound. Also, no matter what we did with the bass port plugs (in, out, top, bottom port) the bass does not satisfy. They go plenty deep for a speaker of this size but there is a one note quality and a bump at a certain frequency that could not be resolved by placement or use of the plugs. In my view this is one of those speakers that would be fine for a home theater system but not for two channel audio.