First off, I would like to say thanks to Louis for a wonderful speaker buying experience. I e-mailed Louis back and forth a few times and settled on a 3T in EKO Neutral. When I called to order them, I expected a sales person, but I actually got Louis (the owner). Amazing. Super nice and he spoke with me a little while on what amp to pair with them.
I have them on 24" stands
Sorry for the crappy iPhone pic. I am just playing them with no room treatments (for now), running lossless files out of a mac mini. I am augmenting the bass with a POS sub 100 from Dayton audio. I have extremely sub par interconnects and speaker wire. This is bring powered with a $25 Lepai lp-2020a that I bought off amazon that feeds it about (I think) 10 watts per side.
I like these speakers SOOOOO much. I listen to about 50% jazz and 50% rock/electronic/indie music and they sound phenomenal. I am really bad about using all of the audiophile descriptive words but they have a seductive midrange and a very accurate sound stage.
If these speakers have a downfall, it is the low end. I tried to run them without a sub, and if I only listened to jazz, it would have been fine. However, it sounds too light with other genres. Others have stated that it is my sub-par amp. However, I also hooked it up to my Yamaha 663 just to find out. This receiver does about 95 watts per channel. While the bass did get better, I would still want a sub for any genre other than jazz.
The only other downfall (maybe a good thing, actually) if that I now want to upgrade all of my other gear to complement the 3T's.
I paid more for these speakers that all other speaker I own, but still feel that I got a phenomenal deal. If I could do it all over again, I would.
Thanks Louis.