Hello All,
I would like to tell the true story of one man's speaker quest. On September 6, 2012 a friend emailed me some speaker manufacturers' websites, including Salk. A had a lot of time to kill and I surfed this and other sites for all I could find about Salk speakers. I located a thread where a black pair of SS8 speakers was made and there I became very intrigued. I looked at every thread containing Salk SS8s.
Within the next month, I had traveled to listen to Revel speakers, Focals, JBL 1400 Array, Paradigm S8, Triton Twos, and a few I forgot the names of. Although they were all good speakers, nothing struck me as something I had to buy. I emailed Jim Salk, who told me that he was going to be Florida for the Audioholics event. I dropped my plans for that weekend to be there to listen to the SS8 speakers.
Nothing could have prepared me for the experience I had yesterday at the event. I fell in love with the SS8's and placed an order for them in Satin black, the same finish I saw in the earlier thread. They were beautifully made, and sounded very refined and balanced from top to bottom. I listened in the room for hours, speaking with Jim and his wife. They were awesome. The two other speakers were also excellent, especially suprising were the unnamed monitor speakers that sounded way bigger than their stature. My 11 year old son, also enjoyed listening with me, patiently waiting for me to finish listening. My wife also liked them, but became bored and left to shop.
She returned a couple hours later to tell me that she spent a whopping 65 bucks and I was shocked at the "expensive" shopping spree that she had just been on. I scolded her jokingly and smiled when I told her that I placed an order for the SS8's. Yeah, she 's cool with it, I am a lucky guy to have her and to have a pair of SS8's coming in about 60 days. And the icing on the cake was when we won the big door prize. It was a good day all around.
Thanks to everyone who posted something about their experience with Salk, the company, the man and the speaker. I will quietly wait for them and I will post my personal experiences when I get them into my room. Thanks, Pete