Psb Platinum speakers

1439bhr it sounds kinda flat.And the imaging was way off.I'am used to hearing Cassandra Wilson center stage 4 to 5 feet off the floor on one of her recordings.She sounded like she was two feet off the floor next to the left speaker.I could hear the music coming separately out of each speaker.They never disappeared!I really don't know what the problem was but it sounded pretty bad.The VTL tubes are suppose to be stable down to 2 ohms.The Platinums did sound a little better.

I believe PSB is a little out of its market and league in the "hi-end" GOld/Platimum catergory...it is just too competitive at that level...with Maggies,Vandersteen,Thiel,Meadowlark,etc to just name a few...PSB really excels at the sub 1k price points...with their image level series....

Beg to differ Phasecorrect, as I bet thousands of Stratus Gold owners would also. The Gold i is one of the best full range speakers in its class.

The Mcintosh speakers retail for 7k, but check the demo and used market and you can get a discount. All of the speakers that I've found to be better than the PSB cost at least twice as much. PSB Golds are extremely competative. Anyone looking to upgrade past the PSB Golds should be ready to pay a lot more.

Although no retail price listed at PSB site I believe the Platinums are much more expensive vs Status series (T8 retail $6500?, T6 retail $4700?) and at that higher price point will face very tough competition from some heavy hitter speakers.

There are incredible deals currently from many dealers on new Stratus Gold-I $1500-1700 range with blems even cheaper, very high value/performance ratio and I agree that you need some power to bring out their best 150-200+
watt range.

I am echoing Bulldog that you have to pay much more to noticeably set up from Gold-I, great value for audiophiles.