Greetings from Blue Ridge Sound Engineering,
Thanks for your interest in our speakers. I'll try to address some of your questions/concerns in the prededing posts:
I've been thinking of re-writing portions of our website with a different tone, I'm used to being aggressive and I think perhaps a little too much of that shows on our site, and certainly in some of my early posts in some of the forums. I'm very passionate about Audiophiledom in general and speakers in particular, to anyone who was offended, my sincere apologies.
My intention was to demonstrate that we've got something unusual here: a speaker that performs like a much larger, much, much more expensive unit. I don't wish to make the owners of expensive speakers feel bad, but only to let them know that the next time they're shopping for a new pair of speakers... there's finally another option to spending an arm and a leg and yet wind up with some highly musical, very accurate and (I believe) squarely high end sound. Not everyone has endless recources and I believe that not only should audiophiles of more modest means be able to purchase truly great-sounding speakers, but I'd imagine even those with deep pockets would like to spend less to get more.
I do agree wholeheartedly that measurements aren't everything, though I think it's safe to say that most speakers (yours may be the exception, SET man) that measure poorly will generally sound poor, and most speakers that measure out well will have a high proclivity tward sounding more like the music they are intended to re-create. Our speakers were created to sound great first. That they measure impressively compared to even extremely expensive speakers is simply assurance that we've done our job well... I hope that doesn't sound arrogant, that's not my intention.
There will be reviews on our speakers by major publications in the near future. At this point we're under the impression that no major reviews has to be better than glowing reviews from a major publication followed by a huge demand for the speakers that we can't keep up with. At present, we're limited to about 10 pair per month max production. This summer (barring any unforseen roadblocks) we're moving production to a quality controlled factory setting where we'll be far more capable of keeping up with the demand that we expect will be generated by reviews we expect to be quite positive. We're barely keeping up now, I'd hate to alienate customers with a month or two long waiting list for our speakers by releasing review pairs before we're ready for more major production numbers.
So for now, this leaves us with customer feedbackwhich with the exception of a few veneer finishing issues on a few of the very first samples, has been 100% positive. These issues were corrected early on, and as for the sound quality... our customers are in 100% agreement that these speakers sound great and most are replacing far more expensive speakers with ours and still just as positive many months after initial impressions.
I apologize for the delay in starting another auction on Audiogon, as mentioned, we're struggling to keep up with demand and I simply didn't have a pair to auction. However, we did start an auction there this past monday, so please visit and check out our auction. Oh, and feel free to bid too!
If I've missed any issues or any of you have any questions/comments, please either post here or you may write me directly at
[email protected].
Thank You,
Hope you have a good one,
Carl
