Monthly Archives August 2014

GoldenEar Triton 7 Speakers, $1400pr In our August Newsletter we crowed about GE bringing out the new Triton 1 speakers. At $5k per pair they’re generating massive interest in the hifi world. Now that we’ve had them close to a month and have heard them with a variety of different amps, we can corroborate that they are living up to advance billing. That is, they are super clear and detailed- with plenty of muscle. So why are we returning to T-7 this month? When you tear apart T-1, you see two 5.25” mid woofers and a ribbon tweeter- in D’Appolito
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Now On Display! GoldenEar Triton One Speakers, $5000pr GoldenEar has introduced one tremendously successful speaker after another. There’s a new alpha lion! It all started a few years back with the Triton 2 tower with powered subs, $3000pr. Using its version of the vaunted Heil Ribbon Tweeter, GoldenEar set new standards of smoothness and imaging in the world of affordable towers with integral subs. Before GoldenEar, such speakers were basically thought of as theater speakers where the wife wouldn’t tolerate a stand alone subwoofer. Triton 2 served that purpose as well. But mostly T-2 won audiophiles who wanted detail, kick,
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