If it was balanced bridged, the balanced input impedance would be double the single ended. It's not and that is odd. The other numbers no one can really dispute until they measure them, the input impedance should be something one can rationalize. It's odd, that's why I brought it up.

Glad you are enjoying them, very compact design. How many watts do you believe you are running them at? Any idea what the input voltage is to the amplifier at your usual listening volume? They specify distortion at a much lower power than they are rated, I would assume that is because at full tilt the numbers are (considerably?) higher.

That's awesome.....I haven't heard any of the recent models, but got to hear the Kipod (v1 I think) in San Francisco some years back driven by Moon separates.  You could tell something special was going on, and these weren't even run for 50 hours yet.....

Tom -- I need to invite myself over. What's your music of choice?  Format?

Tom has a fantastic vinyl collection, and while he may have a DAC or a CDP laying around, he's almost all vinyl. I always enjoyed chilling in the listening room in Atlanta, and would love to make it up to VA. Perhaps one day.

**BRENT**

Tom and his wife are super cool.  You guys should really visit his listening room.  I sure miss having both of them down here that's for sure.

Looks interesting: http://www.soundonsound.com/news/atc-reveal-compact-passive-nearfield-monitor

 

Aaw - that's not speaker porn. *This* is speaker porn (note the fire extinguisher..)

"I've bought some new speakers, honey" (sound of door slamming)

I like the "resonance control devices" on top of the speaker boxes in the bottom pic!

4 hours ago, skullguise said:

I like the "resonance control devices" on top of the speaker boxes in the bottom pic!

I fail to see how potted-plant man would have a similar resonance to R2D2.

Well if the plant is MaryJane, it could be highly "resinance".

I love Focal, but these are some ugly ass speakers:

Much prefer the red ones, the black ones (of course) and even the white ones to these.

Love 'em or hate 'em, you sure as hell can't ignore them 

The red ones are pretty visually loud as well, but for some reason, I'm alright with them.

But the blue ones put me in mind of those bright LEDs that some audiophile equipment have, that just hurt my eyes.  It's too vibrant.

The blue is a lot more shouty than the red for sure.

If nobody wants the blue ones, you could send them over to my house.....

That's a good point, I wouldn't exactly throw them out if I were "stuck" with them.

As a gay man I'm given a secret packet that greatly expands my abilities on certain skill sets. One of those being interior design. While I'm not supposed to impart any of that knowledge to heterosexual America, I will go so far as to suggest that some strategically placed artwork could marry these sound transducers to your living room.

Possible speaker porn

Wireless , Active, KEF LS50's, pre-order from tomorrow!

http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/10/future-fi-now-kefs-ls50-wireless-active-loudspeaker/

 

 

I would categorize those more as speaker soft core, not actual porn. Still interesting though. 

...some fresh colour combinations might help separate this new active LS50 model from the passive version: Titanium Grey/Red; Gloss Black/Blue; Gloss White/Copper.

Wait, those are new colour combinations?  Oh, oh, oh, the passive ones were gloss black/copper and gloss white/blue, so the other way 'round.

On 10/12/2016 at 0:59 PM, CarlSeibert said:

If nobody wants the blue ones, you could send them over to my house.....

Out of my league, but they're for sale.

Also, "Audi Blue", so not just gay men should be attracted to them.  Just manly men.

Just to be clear, I don't find them attractive, but I know how to work them in.

Use a slow night in a gay bar as an analogy. 

I stand corrected.

LM audio LM-3

and some amp porn.

LM Audio G-212 and G-2

Those tubes are almost $2,000 a pop I think I remember reading. Happy rolling.