You know, it's really cool you guys can be so happy for me. It's great to have a group of people to share this stuff with. Thank you for that.
Funk: It feels incredible to be a member of the Salk family. I was so jealous of you and Nuance for so long. I can't tell you how happy I am not to be jealous anymore.
Now I'm going to try to catch up to your front end (although I don't know how close I'll get).
OgOgilby: Pics of the grills on:
I'll attempt some better pics later today as the sun is out and lots of light helps when photographing black things.
I've been listening today with the grills on and I'm not hearing anything I don't like. So I'll try to keep my wife happy and leave them on for a while.
One comment I'd like to make that *should* hit home with some of you. I've auditioned speakers in my home that I just could not get any emotional attachment to; I just didn't care. However, that is all I seem to have with these HT2's. Everything I seem to listen to just grabs me. It amazing. Does this make sense or am I crazy?
On the subject of "everything", I've read comments from people with ST's that stated they were finding that a lot of their music sounded bad do to poor recording quality. I don't feel this way at all. I thought my B&W 805S's were forgiving to poor material, but these Salks are far more forgiving. Great recordings sound very special, but some poorer stuff I have is really decent. Sure you can tell it's not great, but I used to not play it. Now I certainly can and it sounds relatively good. I was really concerned about this, but it's just not an issue.
Also, with my B&W's some material I have that is bright sounding was uncomfortable to listen to. With the HT2's, there doesn't seem to be nearly as big of a difference between good material and what I used to think was bright sounding. Brighter material sounds brighter, but not hard to listen to in any way.
And here's something I told Nuance on the phone last night: when I turned up the volume with my B&W's, they got loud sounding; seemingly stressed and a little compressed. Turn the volume up on the HT2's and all they do is sound better. I don't seem to notice they got louder, just better.
Now that I've gotten through about 100+ different songs from all kinds of artists and genres, I can say that I'm having a really hard time finding ANY fault with these speakers. The detail is incredible. I can hear everything and it's all good.
Now where is that Fedex guy with my Parasound gear?