Caesar,
Have you heard them in a reasonable set up? They were set up in four rooms, that I heard, at last years RMAF. Two rooms were very satisfying. The other two so so.
If so, what do your ears tell you?
GG
Don't mis-understand my post. I know very little about measurements or how to read them. I always go by my ears and by my visceral reaction to whether gear sounds like real music. My ultimate standard is whether the speaker can put the listener in a state of flow, a psychological state of happiness in action, where the listener is not distracted or instructed by the gear. As a result, the listener can lose himself in the moment and connect with the musicians who wrote the music and the musicians who are performing it. Nevertheless, it is reassuring that Stereophile reviewed and measured them, as I like a variety of opinions.
I have not had much time with the speakers, but I think it is one of the better box speakers out there, along with Vivid Giya and Alexandrias when driven by D'Agonstinos. When I heard the YGs in the past, they sounded very natural and real to me.
I do find it interesting that they are marketing the speaker by appealing to science. I know there are a lot of folks for whom the appeal to science is very important. They cannot let go and enjoy the gear if there is no science or measurement.
I think YG had a very creative "Best Speaker On Earth Campaign" that attracted a lot of attention and jolted people looking at sexy but boring ads in the magazines to listen to YGs. Now, the message has shifted to the custom drivers and measurements. Obviously, the higher price of the customer drivers needs to be justified, and measurements are an objective way to show the enhanced performance of these drivers. So I am curious if the measurements are new, legit, and / or made up.