Does anyone have any experience with PSB Speakers

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.

I have listened to the PSB Imagine T and Imagine T2 and both are very good speakers. Some of my favourites at that price point and I have listened to many. It basically cmae down to the Imagine T or T2 and Focal 726. Still haven't decided, although I have been told to listen to Focus Audio...currently trying to find somewhere to listen to them.

I own image 4t and 65t, stratus silver and gold, and synchrony one. Each is excellent in its price range, and each higher priced speaker is better than its lower cousin. There is a house sound, which is basically neutral, with more cost providing more range, detail and coherence. PSB, like many Canadian speakers uses the government anechoic lab to test their designs, DMSO it's not just guesswork. A quality product at a bargain price. It's not the best ever made, but I haven't heard better at any price point.