Hey Srajan, you probably didn't see this but I think that your former boss Pat at Meadowlark Audio just gave you a nice compliment and explained why he'd not send you any of his new speakers for review. Here's the link and text: "I have two old buddies, the sorts who sleep over at each other's homes, let their hair down and party. One owns one of the more successful retail stores. He bangs it out at 100K+ per week and enjoys a loyal customer base who see him first. He's among the very few who can hold the line on discounting and pull it off (!). On this side of the industry that's really something to respect. When I showed him that I could destroy his mega-buck rig with my 50K thing he just blew it off: Pat, are you stupid? Why turn a 200K sale into a 50K sale? Duh. He walked me back into his warehouse and showed me a 1m inventory. It cannot be that everything he's correctly and carefully and professionally espoused for 30 years is gonna come apart. I never brought it up again. The other enjoys a comfortable life operating a very high traffic audio review site. When I peruse his roster of advertisers, every single one has something to lose as Next Gen overturns their applecarts. If he were to review my product and tell the truth about it—as he can be counted on to do— that wouldn't be so good for his business. Knowing the man, I'm sure he'd do just that. But, me, I can't ask him to. So I never bring it up. So yeah, while the inevitability of Next Gen hangs in the air—and it will out because it's obviously better AND cheaper AND smaller—an uneasy stasis remains in place and has for much longer than I expected it possibly could…" Enjoy. Charlie
I see. I'm not sure he had me in mind though. After all, we've reviewed a number of fully active ambitious DSP speakers like the Kii 3, Dutch & Dutch, Grimm Audio across the years. Just days ago I published the Kenaz AD36 review, another fully active DSP speaker. And that's exactly what Pat's new designs are too – class D-powered multi-way speakers with DSP crossovers and SB Acoustic Satori drivers. Also, I'm not really the partying type and have no hair to let down so again, he must mean someone else. Further, I worked for him 21 years ago and haven't seen him since so we're not buddies either. But thanks for the link and thought. He is right in that I would have no issue whatsoever espousing the many benefits of active drive and exploiting modern DSP smarts. Been there, done that, would happily do it again. In fact, the Treble Clef Audio M assignment which is all about that and more is just around the corner; and comes in at €75K; and hits 16Hz. Srajan
