Yeah, I would like to see more from them also! BUT, they are new to the game and have very few employees. All of them have multiple jobs to fill. They do have a "media" person but he is very young and, I expect, inexperienced. Lend them support and hope they survive as a manufacturer. The new Q3 speakers sound great! Of course, $25,000 worth of 300B amps and preamp doesn't hurt!!! I give them top one, or maybe two, at Southwest Audio Fest this past weekend.
Thanks for that. Really, I find it gratifying that people get the passion that everyone involved has for producing a sublime system. One that rivals systems costing 2 - 10X as much money. The retail price of the gear in that room:
Revelation series preamp + amps are about $25,000
Q3 speakers are just a hair under $12,000
The Mola Mola DAC we had retails for $13,500
The Rendu and small green computer system is maybe $3000-3,500
Total is about $53,000 - $54,000 give or take. I went into some rooms where the speakers cost that much. Honestly, I would rather have listened to ours over most any room there. It was captivating. So I think we should give Spatial some serious credit for pulling this off. Danny Ritchie came by and he told us that ours was easily his favorite room at the show. Yes, it was that good. Now that this has been done, look for them to make some other splashes and be more communicative. Give them some time and this company is going to do some great things.
Of course I am biased because those are my preamp and amps there, but Sam just completely nailed the new Q3. He literally finished right before they had to pack up for the show. So the speakers had maybe 5-10 hours on them plus playing all night Thursday before the show started. If you heard them on Friday they were very good, but about noon on Saturday the woofer surrounds really loosened up and it sounded like we picked up half an octave on the bottom in an hour or two. The bass and overall balance became unreal by early Saturday afternoon. I did not go hear every room either, but of the ones I heard we were easily top one or two. Most everyone who visited and stayed for a song or two thanked me when they walked out and were shaking their heads saying how good it sounded.
I think you all need to realize what Spatial has accomplished in the past few months. They have reached production of the Revelation series preamp and amps, and they have developed a completely new speaker that is amazing and got it all to the SW Audio Fest. This is a flagship speaker... really. I heard some speakers at the show that cost literally 2 - 5X what the Q3 does and none of them were significantly better. It is at that level. Of course the system in front of it didn't hurt:) My point is that Spatial is on the move, getting things done. There will be more, and there will also be more communication. It is coming, but give them some time. They just met a huge deadline and they absolutely nailed it..... My 2 cents....
