I read tvyankee's impressions of the Super 3 Bipole in the other thread, so I am pasting it here where it should be:
hello:
i was with louis and vinnie today and listening to the new bipole super 3's and i got to tell ya that this speaker kicks some butt.
the soundstage on this thing is great and the bottom end is pretty believable. we listened to them a few different ways and ever way sounded good.these speakers fill up the room and they just sound right.
louis does some fine work on these and it has payed off.
vinnie on the other hand had his modded dac there and his amp and both together sounded great.
we listened for awhile to a couple of different things and it all sounded real good. from female voice to drums to bass, horn and guitar.
louis and vinnie make a very nice product and are some of the real good guys in the bizz.
if you get a chance take a listen to these products.
Hi Dave,
It was nice to see you again and I agree with you on the Bipoles, they kick serious butt!
I found the Super 3 Bipoles to be a very impressive speaker! They are super fast, very full-sounding (down to about 50Hz), and dish out a very wide and deep soundstage. The Clari-T/Lotus does a fantastic job driving them (they are a 4-ohm nonimal load, so the Clari-T dishes out a clean 11 watts into 4-ohms) and since there are two drivers, the efficiency is increased to 96dB.
The Super 3s have more pinpoint imaging (probably some of the best imaging of any speaker I've heard), but the Super 3 Bipole has a more diffuse, 3D sound (similar to the B200 OB, but are much easier to place in the room than the OBs, and with much better bass reponse) with a very wide and deep soundstage. We actually tried them as close as 1 foot from the rear wall and they still sounded good, but sounded better at about 3 to 5 feet from the wall. This is very room dependent and one needs to experiment for the best results. IMO, the music that the Bipoles created was very lifelike, very fleshed out, and very balanced. And the Super 3 Bipoles seemed just as lightning fast and responsive as the A8s, and are a little warmer up top.
As Louis mentioned, there is one thing about the Super 3 Bipoles that I believe no other speaker can compete with...
versatility! You have the option to configure them as a Bipole in a 4-ohm or 16-ohm fashion (parallel vs series), which is great if you have an amp that does not like a 4-ohm load. You can also add an inductor to the rear firing driver and this will transform them into a 1.5 way speaker, where the rear driver would just be used for bass response with a gentle 1st order roll-off. You can also just run the front driver (monopole, which essentially gives you a Super 3), or even run the front and rear drivers out of phase (dipole, which is like an OB speaker). You can also power the front and rear drivers from different amps if you wanted! These are seriously veratile speakers, which is another thing that makes them very appealing and I'm sure they can be configured to work well with many different rooms and amplifiers.
Louis, you have something really special here... a very unique speaker that really needs more attention. It is too good to be left as an "unknown Omega model." When I move into my new house at the end of January, I'll going to have to get myself a pair!
Thanks for having Dave and me over yesterday, and thanks for the pizza and drink