YG Acoustics add in Stereophile


I saw the YG Acoustics add in Stereophile and was wondering if anyone knew what "Competitor" speaker they were refering to in the measurements. I heard the YGs at CES and they sounded great to me.
dawa5309
You tell me if this is the 'Best on Earth': I went into the YG room at RMAF with a copy of Peter Gabriel's 'The Long Wlak Home', which is a soundtrack recording for 'The Rabbit Proof Fence'.

Track 1, moderate volume, 20 seconds in: the *midrange* driver bottomed out on a *bass* note, and snapped loudly. This is something I can't get my speakers at home to do, even if I play that track unreasonably loud. IME my speakers at home (Classic Audio Reproductions T-3) come off better than the 'Best on Earth'...
You know what's funny? Their advertisement got them recognition in this forum. Bad press is still press.

Atmashpere, RMAF is hardly the place to truly evalutate speakers.

JohnK, the drivers are not the only thing that goes into a speaker. What if they use Audio Note capacitors at over $1K a piece? Their enclosures are hardly "run of the mill" enclosures. ie mdf with veneer.

I have not heard these speakers....maybe they suck.
You have to be very confidant and bold with your design to make such a claim.
It is extremely difficult to prove it , if not impossible.
I am personally against claims of that sort but to my ear they sound great..............I would not say - THE BEST but close.
10 best .............? YES........but that is my opinion only.
Expensive.........absolutly . Are they worth it??
It depends on the your credit and savings account.
s7horton I design loudspeakers well aware of what goes into designing testing manufactering loudspeakers. And I see no AN caps in crossover pictures of YG. I could of missed them but still a $1000 cap is greatly over priced no mater how good it sounds my opinion. I have no comments to make about YG sound quality only the Claim best on earth and cost of said loudspeaker related to parts costs etc. And I have heard used these drivers and better SEAs in many loudspeakers when I see YG I think Madisound thor sitting on a sub.
FWIW I agree that to evaluate *the sound* of a speaker at a show is hit or miss at best. But to document a situation wherein a driver bottoms out once a certain combination of frequency and amplitude are met- that is a different matter. The room they had was not that large- we were not playing that loud a volume (leastwise not in my book anyway), yet the midrange driver buzzed loudly as it bottomed out repeatedly during the duration of the bass note.

I think the design path was: no crossover capacitor in series with the midrange, instead limit its excursion via an airtight box on the backside of the driver. The advantage of this approach is that crossover cap isn't there to mess up the sound of the mids and highs.

The downside is threefold: the midrange is electrically in parallel with the woofer, making this an inappropriate load for a tube amp (8 ohms in the mids and highs, 4 ohms in the bass; no tube amp will play the bass right on it as a result), no crossover on the midrange means that with enough bass excursion the driver can bottom out (which could damage the driver), and finally doppler-effect distortion from the midrange driver due to excessive excursion.

I don't recall the amp being used (it was transistor) but the speaker sounded good when otherwise within its limits.