Well, we touched on it earlier in this giant message thread. Basically the system is tuned lower than older “textbook” bass alignments and so it mates well with room gain at very low frequencies. The -6 dB is 2pi anechoic and the 20 Hz spec is in-room (around the size of an IEC standard room).
Any professional reviews in the works that you can share, or too early?
Which is precisely why I responded “Both” to Steven’s post.
There is no contradiction in the two specs.
Thanks! Maybe there’s a way that we can better simplify this in our wording in the future.
I find it clear and have seen other speaker manufacturers do the same, and publications such as Stereophile recognize the distinction as well.
The best you can do is to simply state “anechoic” and “in room.”
agree on clear enough.
Anyone order these yet? Post up!
There are plenty of people that can easily afford a nice car or two or three, a nice motorcycle or two or three, an extra house and a nice set of speakers or two or three. Just take a look thru Audiophile magazine and notice the vast array of high end limited audience products.
I dont think they will have any problem meeting sales goals as they appear to be a really well developed product. The price seems very fair for the target audience. Not everyone should e able to easily afford speakers at this price point. I dont think this piece in the lineup was meant for the Walmart shoppers.
Best wishes for the success of the new speaker. Don’t quite understand the 00Hz or -LR4 crossover specs:
Crossover Frequency 00 Hz, 2500 Hz – LR4.
Well I did. Replacing my 15 yr old Sophia’s
I wonder how many pairs can be made a month? Would be nice to see a in house video of the production and assembly procedures of the fr30…
Chris, thanks - I did hear you talking about the planar driver about 3 minutes into the second video, but I thought it would be perhaps the biggest feature of this speaker.
… if you know what the difference is, which needed an explanation. One day someone will explain to me what 2pi anechoic means. Sounds like a room full of egg crates.
These speakers are likely to cost 3 times what I paid for my car. And I only have the one car.
You can always sell a kidney…
Nothing against these speakers, but I’ve never been attracted to speakers with more than one bass driver, I’ve never owned a pair, and for much of the time I’ve owned speakers with a mid/bass driver only. All these bass drivers and radiators don’t rock my boat. Other people can’t get enough of them. I would be much more interested in the midrange and mid/bass performance. So I’ll be keeping my kidneys for the time being.
Thank you, Craig. A breath of fresh sanity. Much welcomed.
$8k doesn’t get you much of a car here.
I currently have 7 license plates. From $35k for the Chrysler to $100k for the Z06 to $300k for the motor home. Different strokes for sure. No reason to hate either situation.
But that comma!
https://www.psaudio.com/product-category/aspen/ I think folks are missing the main category page.
To midrange planar driver is definitely one of the speaker’s highlights.
As for “bashing” the other brands…my, my, my. I don’t think we’re bashing anyone. I do think it’s important to point out differences such as the fact the vast majority of very expensive (and lower cost) speakers use off the shelf drivers. One can make what they will of this info - and many off the shelf drivers are excellent.
We wanted to make the point of what makes our special and to do that its necessary to point out why, relative to the other offerings on the market.
Funny how announcements like this bring out the worst in some people, none of whom have never seen the equipment, much less even desiring it. I have friends who can’t understand my $650 Maggie LSRs— “We have a whole system that costs far less than half that” they say. I wonder what they’d say when they find out my Stella stack cost me $4200 and and my PST $4000? But they are polite, and do acknowledge the fabulous sound.