A Win for Beginning Audiophiles? | GoldenEar BRX Bookshelf Speaker
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- About Tom Martin:
Tom is a long-time audiophile. He began his reviewing career after acquiring the The Absolute Sound magazine in 1997 and then hi-fi+ magazine in 2002. He has worked closely with Harry Pearson and Robert Harley at TAS and with Roy Gregory and Alan Sircom at hi-fi+. Since Tom and his teams expanded the TAS and Plus platforms in the digital domain, he has served as Chief Content Officer.
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Associated Equipment:
Roon Nucleus Server
Oppo BDP-105 CD drive
Legacy Wavelet DAC/Preamp
Bryston 3B Cubed power amp
Sanus stands
Shunyata Venom power director and AC cables
Music Used for Evaluation:
Metric
Gary Burton Quartet
Shostakovich Symphony No. 4
Keith Jarrett
Joni Mitchell
Decembrists
Beethoven Late Quartets
The Black Keys
Cat Power
Mahler Symphony No. 3
Gillian Welch
Little Feat
Of Monsters and Men
Procol Harum
Efterklang
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I may have said this in the past, but it cannot be overstated. Your reviews are doing a massive service to the HiFi community. I feel your reviews are honest, accurate, very informative. Great depth about the product. Reviewing speakers with a competent front end is the only way to give people an accurate assessment. Years of experience will always trump what people think they know. Great job guys.
Masterful review. It’s not delivered with the flash of other reviewers, but this one is comprehensive and detailed from many aspects. Much appreciated! 👍👌
GR in a rare analysis says this speaker is excellent as is-no upgrade necessary!
This was suggested to me by the CZcams algorithm based on what I had been researching online. The description of “transparency” was excellent as well as the character of the BRX’s presentation in general. And the summation at the end,particularly the comparison to the KEF speakers, was an informed opinion that really struck at “what are you (the buyer) looking for in speakers such as these? “.
Years ago I played this audiophile game. Speakers, amps, preamp, cd player,interconnects, speaker wire, power cords, room treatments. A dizzying array of components to achieve the perfect sound.
Thanks Tom, in this example the KEF speakers look to be the sensible choice.
Hey Tom I highly appreciate your expert views on reasonably priced gear. Probably you can get more engagement with shorter and a bit faster paced videos. I really hope you will be successful here and we get more content. Thanks.
Really enjoying your reviews
Beautifully done review.
I own these speakers, and always considered them somewhat bass shy, despite reviewers who laud their low bass response. Mine seem to go lower than 80hz, but nowhere near what their specs say (typical of the brand) still a very good speaker in many respects
great review! 🙌
I have the middle brother, Aon 3, and I enjoy them a lot! Thanks for the review!
Vertical dispertion / “compression” ,,,,the BRX must be placed on a relative high 32” / 80 cm stand according to Sandy Gross ;)
Think the limiting in height could be due to the limited vertical dispersion of EMT tweeters , but they have much better horizontal dispersion.
Thanks Tom, I'm looking for stand mounts but leaning towards the Arendal 1723 S THX bookshelf due to home theater dynamic requirements. These are very interesting and I appreciate your thorough review 🙂
I have issue one of The Abso!ute Sound magazine and most of them up to the 90's.
Tom,
Beautiful analysis of the BRX.
Will you please follow up with an analytic study of the speakers. For example box ring spectrograms to judge box damping. And non linear (frequency and level dependant) distortion. Is their any chance of doing a tear down of the speaker to understand what drivers they use, and what kind of crossover distortion is present. For example measurements on the dielectric absorption factor at the zero crossover that causes non linearity on low level signals, and crossover inductor B-H hysterisis induced non linearities at high signal levels. Lastly, Transient response behaviour with square wave input, knowing that the fft transform of a perfect square wave is a spectra with copious high frequency content.
If you wanna win at entry level try the Ascend Acoustics Sierra LX ~
could be excellent with tubes and a quality r2r dac.
Didnt Danny Richie upgrade em ? G.R. Research
Don't know about the rest of you but I couldn't get past 10 minutes without dozing off
$10,000 in electronics plu$ room treatment in front of these speakers to really make them sing.
Do people actually watch this and think it's engaging? I'd rather watch paint dry.
Yeah, that's the key word "They Think " Not You . Your point of view is only real to You, Not reality you just don't agree with him which is fine