Thank you Kedar for your kind words and appreciation(s) about our work ! We are above all analog (addicts) dedicated, speakers well... this is really a tough subject for us. One of the things we kept in mind for our Parisian showroom is that this place had to keep the spirit of a Parisian home listening experience. Most of our customers were Parisians at first, and as you know most Parisians have small rooms and (French) partners who are keen about design (or should I say room with no huge speakers and electronics inside ?).
Coming back to Süsskind Audio, I discovered Joachim Gerhard about 5 years ago. I think it was during an ETF or a German show and music was playing in a huge hotel hall all made of (white) marble and I was wondering where were displayed those huge speakers able to feel in the space with such ease. Instead of huge speakers, I found Joachim playing these tiny Phenomenon speakers. A very curious experience which lead me to change a lot of my listening habits but also to have more open ears after all I do come from building up PA systems and I had a lot of fun turning into audiophile by playing with Voice of the Theaters home made speakers (and electronics) with various woofers, horn drivers and tweeters (I ended up stuck with the wonderful Vitavox S2 among other things).
The Süsskind Audio Progress and Progress Lx are amazing speakers and you can really get quickly hooked on them. I use a pair of Progress in my own house with a Thrax Ares integrated amp and whatever analog set-up comes in, well actually it is my desk room. It is a small room of about 20 sqm, with books and records on every available walls spaces available. Sitting on the couch, in this particular environment gives me a lot of musical pleasure and also is an excellent analog set-up observation equipment. Of course some of the larger speakers might be able to provide more of everything but as you wrote it Kedar : these speakers have the ability to be versatile and non monotonous. And I guess these are important factors for obtaining a discriminant listening experience.
Anyways, it is also true that we know welcome more and more remote Parisians, or even French coming from "the wilderness" (anything outside of Paris of course), and of course people from all around the world and we do need some big(ger) speakers. If any of you have any suggestions on any "big" speakers please let us know about your opinion as we are quite struggling to find something adequate for our Parisian showroom, even though we have pair of Thrax Bassus + Lyra speakers that are going to be set-up in an upcoming showroom somewhere in France in a near near future...
Bh the way, we will be playing our own cartridges and Le Phono SE at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest once again this year with Frank Schröder Tiny Giant and CB tonearm. Speakers will be from Troy Audio, electronics from Thrax (the wonderful 300B Spartactus mono amplifiers will be played and they are spectacular amps to listen to). We will also have everything needed for cartridge analysis if you think something is wrong with your MC cartridge, because as Kedar said on of our focus is repairing cartridges and this maybe helps us in the choices we make with the brands we import or deal with. It could be an opportunity for some of you to come and visit us.
This might be also the good opportunity to thank you all for your welcome on this forum and please pardon my French.
François Saint-Gérand, Ana Mighty Sound