Upon reading this thread, and re-reading many parts of this thread over and over, I have come to several dead ends in my thinking.
First, I was super excited about this speaker for Danny.
Second, I was also super excited about this speaker for his customers.
Then came many other thoughts. It really looks like a GR product. Which threw me.
Danny deserves to do whatever he wants with his business vision. Lord knows he does plenty for those of us who buy his kits!!
I think we all know that the price of every flagship product, ESPECIALLY in electronics, really comes down to compensate for the R and D.
The biggest thing about these speakers that I think makes me need to step back is that Danny has provided the golden egg in a reproducable form, meaning his kits. So seeing a potentially groudbreaking speaker at a sizeable pricepoint, mostly made with parts we see on his website, makes the differentiation between kit and not, almost uncomfortable for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm fully in support of Danny and his involvement in Serenity Acoutics. I think that will help GR Research in some ways.
I'm a DIY gr research kit customer, seemingly for life. So I'm not going anywhere. And I'm sure everyone else is too.
I just hope nobody blames Danny for selling knowledge and design in his chosen way.
Ben