Hey, first post here. Been looking at the GR Research site and watching Danny’s videos for about a year. I’ve been into building DIY for about a year as well. Ready to move up in quality and complexity as well.
I’m hoping Danny or someone GR would be able to answer a couple of questions I have:
1. I’m considering the X-Static’s, NX-Otica’s and the NX-Treme’s. Use is both home theater and music. 1st room size is 20x15, ceiling 9’. I have a second room that is the same size, ceiling 11’, but has an open back to the kitchen. So yeah… I might build two kits, I dunno. Any advice on the best kit for my situation and what the difference in quality and dynamics are as you go up? Any typical commercial speaker “cost value” to compare them to?
2. As an alternative discussion, I’ve considered, in addition to this kit for another room, building a DIY speaker similar to the old B&W 801 matrix with the single huge woofer. I was looking for something similar from GR but it looks like the bass is distributed to multiple drivers for efficiency and other reasons I don’t yet understand. Is this type of speaker kit just not viable in the market due to size/shape/ trend or is the modern engineering of the other kits just that superior?
Thanks in advance to Danny or anyone else who’d like to share experiences and knowledge as I pick a kit.
RW