That combination i bet wont be 5495. Like Rick said, is all about trade off, and budget is one them. So is better start with a budget.
This is a public forum. I respect Rick too much (in the few emails I have exchanged with him) to put him in a spot by discussing commerce. He has emailed me an expected budget. I have emailed him a response and when everything is clear it would be Rick's perogative as to what specifictions he can make public and what he cant. The speaker design world is a small one and everyone is watching everyone else sometimes a little too closely. IP is transient. Let's just leave it at that.
What I believe however is that, given the recomendations from more experienced "audiophiles" like jonbee, I am FULLY expecting this speaker to compete favourably against speakers that have about the same driver configuration (and are about the same size) like the Joesph Audio's Pearl 2 (did you know he named this speaker after his mom-in-law), Aerial Acoustics 7T, Sonus Faber Amati, and PMC PB1i.
I also fully expect Rick's new speaker to
outperform some more common speakers (in India) including the Spendor's A9, Dynaudio's Focus 380, Monitor Audio's PL300 and KEF's Reference 205/2.
