Pass Labs moves a lot of air with its SR1 speaker announcement
If you're into the "rarefied" strata of high end of audio, listen up. Pass Labs, best known for its electronics, has introduced the SR1, a follow-up speaker to its Rushmore model. We've been floored by some Pass Labs Aleph amps, so we're sure this model sounds great, but the press release goes to a lot of trouble to elaborate on the fact that it's a somewhat conventional design. Its four drivers are spread across two enclosures, and Pass has gone to some pains to ensure the drivers maintain pure piston-like motion in use and don't break up. Sorry, but that's nothing more than good, basic speaker design. The end result is a "highly refined sound stage" and "deep awareness of micro-detail" (shouldn't that be "deep soundstage" and "highly refined micro-detail"?). Interested? Start lining up your $25,000; we suspect that's "per speaker," not "per pair."
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