...to V'steen speakers.. This newish Kento, with all-three front-panel drivers being current, premium carbon designs, plus the two side-firing 9" powered woofers/subwoofers fascinates me.
Ordered a pair from Stereo Unlimited (SU) in San Diego, CA, yesterday the 23rd. Finished in rosewood, they'll take a couple months to get here. SU will deliver them, get them running, and tune them to the room.
I've not been to Stereo Unlimited it at least 25 years. When checking San Diego county retailers recently I noticed they were still in business, the only high-end business that has hung around since the old days. From their website it seems they've ended up with all the legacy brands, for this market, that in the old days were carried by the competitors (now gone.)
Well, first, I didn't buy them, or more correctly, I bought them Friday and cancelled that order Sunday. They excelled at resolution, nasality (if that's such a word), and bass definition and extention--those double-9s go WAY down and sound excellent. But...but...but over the weekend I decided I needed much more time to evaluate them since they sounded significantly different than any of my recent systems. I did order a pair of Aesthetix Atlas Eclipse monoamps and decided to concentrate on my PSA FR20s and HHR Exotics Walsh-type TLS-2s. I also ordered my second* top-of-the-line Marantz AV10 pre/pro and will be trying the Audyssey equalization on either speaker.
And look what someone else found and pointed me to--used pairs of V'steen Seven Mk. 2s and M7-HPAs, both at attractive prices. I'll be wire-transferring the purchase price tomorrow. Unfortunately, they too are in NJ and must be retrieved, but I guess I'm ready for that.