Yes it is not to be worn … it started with an AN website … An AN speaker … now it has just become something else … There is so much else in the world … Honor be your memory AN …Let’s rock the boat
Congratulations on the new speaker Paul -
I’m coming and listening to your new “kids” in the US - once you’ve got the virus under control …
More love Denmark
PS -
It’s good marketing Paul - nothing but marketing …
I agree with they too Michael.
Peanuts in the sense of a balance:
One side:
Winning / loyalty to the BHK customers and offering them a pair of perfectly matched passive speakers.
Other side:
Loosing those potential customers who preferred the semi active principle with it’s advantages.
This is not the last speaker PS Audio develops I hope and there are indeed plenty of alternatives available.
It’s just the inconsistency in the promises Paul made in his videos. They raised expectations that are not becoming fulfilled. Whether that is good marketing, remains to be seen. On the other hand I am grateful for the tour. There was, and remains, a great deal to learn.
I am in the active / semi active camp due to limitations in space, the perfect match between drivers and amplifiers which allows for room adjustments that are necessary for small and complex living rooms.
In the large living room we used to have in Texas with slanted sealing, room treatments did not matter. The smaller more cubic sized room we have in The Netherlands is a challenge.
I have been interested to see what PS Audio could come up with. It started with AN breathing new life into a 1980s design. PS Audio then made changes and now Chris Brunhaver has been involved and it has been changed a few more times. These changes have been fundamental, and what interests me is what any company is trying to bring to the market that is new and interesting, not same old, same old, …
There are clear precedents. Some leading companies like Wilson, Focal and Magico have developed in-house technology over decades, often drip down technology from massively expensive designs. In the UK the BBC did huge amounts of research and licensed the designs, creating a family of manufacturers still strong 40+ years later. You have leading brands like PMC and Dynaudio that primarily developed professional products and sold them as consumer versions. More recently you have the likes of Grimm, Kii and Dutch & Dutch that have developed integrated active systems, all of which were developed equally for both professional and consumer use. You also have the likes of ELAC who get one of the best speakers designers on the planet and roll off a string of great products.
A case in point is Magico. Apparently they’ve been going 30+ years. By all accounts very expensive. Never really caught on in the UK, I assume because of the price. The only pair I heard were $/£100,000 and very unpleasantly bass heavy. Now the talk of them is everywhere as they have come out with a speaker that has been hugely well received, with lots of drip down technology and an almost affordable price (about £12,000).
I may be completely wrong, I know nothing of Genesis/Infinity as they barely touched the UK and that was decades ago, and I have no idea what consumer products Chris has been involved with, but my impression is that a new speaker brand must have something seriously special about it to have any significant market penetration.
Sometimes hard decisions have to be made. A global UK brand, Dyson, invested billions in an electric car and had a design team of 500 engineers working on it, decided it would not succeed commercially and pulled the plug on it overnight.
So I, like others I suspect, am interested to know what the purpose of this product is and will make this speaker stand out (if line stage etc. are being dropped), and it may be as simple as making PSA an end to end (source to sound) brand. That would be a perfectly good reason alone given PSA’s brand value.
That could take years unless we get some kind of nationwide response organized. And after 6 months of denial from the top it isn’t looking too promising either.
You are right, I don’t believe that humans will solve that situation. Nature so to speak might help.
There are more reported cases of those that are tested. Numbers Of infected are still increasing, but hospitalization and fatality rates are stable or decreasing.
So we pray that this virus will mutate into something far less lethal, into something that we can treat with a handkerchief, box of Aspirin and chicken broth.
Lets pray that this happens rather sooner than later.
Danish society is, as always, on top and ready … So here too I would like to express my deep sympathy to the countries that are so hard hit … 1 minute silence …
More love Denmark
A stop over to East Tn is in order when allowed ???
For now we (USA) are averaging roughly 1 million new confirmed cases a month - or none if you ask the right person. 
I guess at that rate in another 300 months everyone will have had it and it will no longer be a problem 
It will mysteriously have “gone away” as some have stated will inevitably happen.
Or PS Audio introduces a home listening program, such that we do not need to travel to Boulder Colorado in order to listen to those speakers. Abacus and Quadral have demo units that they ship to anybody willing to pay the shipping fees and willing to sign a contact to ship them back off course.
Aye the 360 is on my upgrade list (after some subs), fully agree active is a good way to go (and fun, to my mind) 
I think I’m on the team going to the US and doing a demo of new speakers for the various hifi fairs. But if I’m not on the team, I’ll come to TN and take a vacation.
For just listening to the speakers a home listening program would be great for consumers.
I trust Boulder Colorado is certainly worthwhile traveling to for lots of reasons, the Rockies and PS Audio in general.
I trust it is part of your (@michael-denmark) business, then it makes sense.
PS: The alternative medication is available in The Netherlands as well, but I abstain from that anyway.
I would think they are biwired. With my system I would drive the woofers with M700 or better yet M1200( if I were able to upgrade). And put the BHK250 on the mid and tweeter. The magic of the BHK would be wasted on the woofers. And the BHK likes lots of head room which they wouldn’t have if they ran the all the drivers. Just my 2 cents
A neat unit.
I agree, it’s a shame, it sounded like an interesting concept, but it’s not our concept, we just gotta wait and see what comes out in the end
UK was badly hit, mainly because London is a massive city and international hub and heavily infected before we knew what was going on. A bit like New York. Has been almost back to normal for some time, just put a mask on before going in a store, social distancing is second nature and everyone is nice to each other. 3 Covid deaths recorded yesterday in the UK.
Lots of open air live events and smaller private events, first concert hall events starting on 13 September. Starting to have spectators at sporting events.
Audio dealers I’ve spoken to have been very busy - listening by appointment only and lots of buyers. Only problem is manufacturers being able to keep up with demand. Been waiting over 2 months for a unit from a local manufacturer, no word yet.
I can confirm that sales of HIFI have increased significantly … stock has been emptied and it is only now again that production can keep up. Lego has doubled their visitor numbers in the first 6 months of this year to well over 100 million visitors on Lego.com
From someone who tends to sit more quietly and observe, it has been fascinating to see the evolution of the design. I’ve been quite impressed by your team’s willingness to completely rethink your design (more than once) in pursuit of what you think is the best product you can produce.
I’m a technology executive in the SF Bay Area. Successful startups often have to pivot multiple times from their original idea to deliver what eventually succeeds in the market. The ones that fail are often the ones that refuse to use new information to make different decisions. One of my favorite pieces of advice has been to “fall in love with the problem you are trying to solve, not the solution you are trying to push”.
Thanks to you and your team for being so transparent and open about the process. It’s quite rare. One of my favorite quotes is from Theodore Roosevelt. It’s well know and a little long so I won’t type it here. Just google "It is not the critic who counts…).
God bless, I look forward to seeing the final product.
