Actually, these are next-gen (one model “newer” than mine), and are reported to be a bit better than my 3.1s.
(This line consisted of the 3.0, 3.1 and 3.5.)
Thanks for the tip!
Scott
3 Likes
Very cool looking speakers.
1 Like
Hmmm, why do I have to think about cooking pots? 
2 Likes
Yep, the enclosures on the side-firing woofers look like stainless steel pots, for sure.
But they don’t sound like someone banging on pots and pans.
2 Likes
From these humble seeds do the Gallo 3 series grow. 
Hooked them up today and have them resting on rings to keep them from rolling around. A subwoofer is needed for the lower octaves but what is there is clean, clear and detailed with some very good image specificity.
1 Like
These are rather remarkable drivers as well. Being boxless seems to be the key. Not a lot of range, but the midrange is sweet.
I have these on stand mounts in my office system:
I run them with a pair of REL Tzero subs.
3 Likes
Yes, vocals and even TV/movie dialogue are rendered with very good fidelity.
2 Likes
What a great forum. Every day I learn a few more audiophile terms from the masters. 
Ahem, smooth like babies’ feet is not an approved audiophile term.
It’s an “Alism”. Alisms are not approved by any governing body or hobbyist groups; and Alisms are not limited to (or frequently relevant to, for that matter) the concerns and interests of audiophiles.
There just…Alisms.
[Sorry Al. I hope we can still be virtual friends.]
3 Likes
I think he’s just ahead of his time, defining the terms that we will all accept at some point in the future. It seems inevitable.
Ahh, the pioneers always have arrows in the back. Worry not, Al, “smooth as baby’s feet” will now be acceptable vernacular.
6 Likes
Feel a baby’s feet and it’ll make sense
4 Likes
We sue the baby’s bottom end as the smooth reference. “Smooth as a baby’s behind”.
Same intent as your reference though.
5 Likes
It actually comes from a bit on FireSign Theaters “Everything You Know Is Wrong” album:
Strange Occurrence at Proctors Well:
Came crawling out of the well, wearing ladies shoes,
didn’t know what milk was,
repeated everything everybody said,
real small, smooth like a baby’s feet with big friendly eyes.
Took him to a Swiss picnic for a good time and he choked to death on a piece of cheese.
13 Likes
I like that! I’ll borrow that line in my future review. Its surely better than using old man’s bladder to describe music flow😆
10 Likes
Yes, yes it is.
4 Likes
You always reminded me of Nick Danger
3 Likes
For some reason, this “poetry” brought this to mind:
The daytime crap of the folksinger slob
He hung himself with a guitar string
A slab of turkey neck, and it’s hanging from a pigeon wing
You can’t write if you can’t relate
Trade the cash for the beat, for the body, for the heat
And my time is a piece of wax falling on a termite
Who’s choking on the splinters
– Beck, “Loser”
3 Likes
Al, I didn’t realize that “smooth like a baby’s feet” was a direct quote from Firesign Theatre. I listened to a lot of Firesign when I was in college, but I didn’t remember that quote. (However, I do hear people say “smooth as a baby’s bottom.”)
At my house, we still often use a quote that Firesign “borrowed” from a William Wordsworth poem. For Wordsworth, “trailing clouds of glory” referred to how babies come from God while bringing along some heavenly glory with them. Unfortunately, according to Wordsworth, people lose more and more of that glory as they age and struggle with the stresses of life. For Firesign, the phrase comes up in reference to a crash landing on one of Firesign’s early records.
Whenever I talk about “trailing clouds of glory” with my family, I am referring to my older son’s tendency toward flatulence. Same words, just a bit of a shift in meaning. 
Thanks for bringing up a Firesign reference to provide a prompt for my aging memory!
3 Likes
So, my friend’s gigantic warehouse guys just carted off his Pass Labs XA200.8 monoblocks.
I’ve had them here for three weeks, mulling his extremely generous offer to sell them to me.
Compared to my X250.8, which I am/was very satisfied with, they are on another (amazing) level.
But…heat, electricity–1550 watts at idle, another $6K power cable, rack space…
Somebody please tell me not to do it.
10 Likes