Focal Kanta No.2

@mmeysarosh

"Golden Ear is agreeably focused on home theater experience and not musical listening. I never even considered them and the products I mention are proper competitors"

That is the biggest pile of crap  I have ever heard. On whose authority do you make that statement? I have owned Vandersteen, DeVore, Von Schweikert and they do not even compare to the GE Triton Reference and GE Triton 1 that I have in 2 different, 2 channel very high end systems.

You do not do the original poster any favors with comments like that.

So,  Golden Ear speakers are more for home theater.  This statement was made a week or so ago.  It is amazing that in the latest Stereophile Recommended Components, there isn't a Focal speaker that is higher than Class B, yet the Golden Ear Triton Reference is in the Class A category which includes less than a dozen much more expensive speakers that has good bass down to 20hz.  How is it possible that a lowly Home Theater speaker got such recognition?  IMHO, the person(s) that made that statement are talking out their back end.  I will say this for the last time, the GE series of speakers while good for Home Theater, were designed as an Audiophile high end speaker..

The GE Triton 1 are in Class B, borderline Class A.  Again, in the same Class as the Focal.  Just Sayin.

@kosst_amojan

From all the reviews I have read, once the bass was dialed in, that was pretty much it.  That's the way it worked with my Triton Ones and my Triton References.  I am very picky about the treble extension (bright) and I was very wary of the folded ribbon tweeter, but I found that it wasn't bright at all.  I am running both sets of speakers in 2 different systems with McIntosh so that may account for that.  My only gripe is that people who never heard them dismiss them as home theater speakers and won't even think they could be wrong.

I have been into high end audio since it's infancy back in the early 70's and have owned probably 15 different pairs of speakers since then.  The Golden Ear speakers and a pair of Odyssey Kismet speakers are the only ones that have stood the test of time in my systems.  I heard the Focal Kantra at the RMAF and I thought they sounded superb.  It is the first time I could actually listen to a Beryllium  tweeter without wanting to rip my ears off.

We all hear different and that is what makes this hobby so much fun.