Looking for the next best thing? Underground welco


I would like to know if anyone can recommend any loudspeakers that are so called off the beaten path. I am very aware of the Zu and Gallo and B&W and JmLab and Vons and Ushers and Hyperion etc, and would like to know if you could recommend the next best thing in technology advancement that most people have not written so much about. Its obvious that the flavor of the month club is always writing about the current best thing. I am looking for interesting new technology that is not so written about and your underground types that may be the next greatest. Thanks>> Bill
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How underground does it have to be?

Totem has some great speakers. The Aerial 7B is very nice. Maybe those aren't underground enough for what you're after--I don't know.

The smallest monitor by Induction Dynamics is excellent, so it may be worth listening to some of their larger models, but I've personally only heard their monitor.

Intuitive Design Summits are phenomenal, and I own them, and have posted a lot about them.

There are SEVERAL other brands that people post favorably about, but which I have not heard personally.

It remains my personal opinion that personal listening is a MUST prior to purchasing loudspeakers. If you buy anything without first listening for yourself, you may be in for a painful surprise. I say this based on having gotten excited years ago about an "underground" company that made expensive speakers. They looked great on paper and in the pictures. Listening in person was an entirely different story--they were hugely disappointing.
My Cerious Technologies speakers (Too/bass) are pretty off the beaten path, but use ballistic ceramic cabinets compression wrapped in Kevlar, and are pretty exceptional at the price.
Well, they don't boast new technology, radical drivers, or new age psychobabble, but Montana loudspeakers can be considered off the beaten path. These are excellent speakers that can compete with most anything out there in their respective price classes. Great drivers, great enclosures, top class xover parts and competent implementation of all these things make for a highly involving musical experience.