Blade vs S5 vs Avior vs Hansen's Prince E's

I auditioned the following in the past year and I decided to buy the Blades + Bryston amps. I could live with most of these speakers but the Blades were my favourite

Thiel CS 3.7 + Classe amps

Vienna Accoutics Kiss with Audio Research digital amps

Vienna Accoutics The Music with 6 subs (forgot the amps)

TAD Evolution One with Audio Research digital amps

KEF Blade with Chord SPM 14000MkII Reference mono power amplifier

Wilson Alexia with D’Agostino Momemtum monoblocks

Wilson Alexandira XLF with D’Agostino Momemtum monoblocks

Magico Q7 with Bryston 28B-SST2

Bryston Model T with Bryston 28B-SST2

Yyzsantabarbara,

What did you think of the model T's

I think they sound damn good for the money, just wish they were better looking.

Off to the Montreal show, its in 10 days or so.

I heard them in Bel Air, CA in the same room as the Magico Q7. I was with a group from the L.A. Audio Society. Both the Model T's and Magico Q7 were hooked up to the Bryston 28B-SST2 (what I went to hear). The Model T sounded really good and the price was very well received by the audio dudes that were there. The striking thing for me was how pissed of a lot of the people were on the Q7's price. They said that the Q7 was not worth approx. 30x the price of the Model T. I would take the Q7 in a second if it were free over the Model T. Some said they liked the Model T more but I think the high price just bugged them too much and they made a protest statement.

I posted a reply 2 days ago. Seems like somebody is asleep at the wheel.

Team 212 Sceanas are not bright at all, the 3.2 with the original ribbon tweeters are actually a tad recessed in the extreme treble, I own a pair!

The blades stuggle? In a realistically sized room they will play louder then you can stand without compression,

In my 26 by 20 by 10 room they can play louder then I can tolerate! In last years NY audio show we were in actually too large a room for even the Blades to work well in, this room was about 40 feet long, but the real problem was that it was two rooms connected and there was a huge suckout where the two rooms became one, we had great sound at the previous show in a large but much better sounding room.

Aviors based on what? Smaller soundstage then the Blades, not a Coherent, and not a point source, other then some really heroic cabinet construction in what ways would you thin the Aviors would be better?