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In Reply to: Trenner and Friedl ? posted by Mcanaday@princeton.edu on December 28, 2016 at 12:58:00:
In my case, I'm primarily interested in the Art, possibly the Osiris, or the (discontinued) Dizzy if I ever saw one used.Based on what Marc Phillips (The Vinyl Anachronist) wrote about the Art in a 11x11' room, I think you might be able to consider the Art in addition to the Sun.
Unfortunately, I haven't heard any of their speakers (yet). I emailed Profundo earlier in the month about where I could hear the Art, and never received a reply. I didn't know about the Stereophile review until I saw your post, so perhaps he was busy fielding other inquiries after the review, or busy with the holidays. I'll try again next week, and hopefully I'll get a reply. Otherwise I have no patience for importers who won't post a dealer list on their web site and then don't respond promptly to customer inquiries.
Another small room speaker that caught my attention around the same time is the Boenicke W5. You might look into that speaker as well. From what I've been reading it has a more contoured response than the T&F Sun, with a mid-bass hump to make it sound big and a treble rise to make it sound detailed, but with a weaker midrange. It supposedly throws a killer soundstage though.
Inmate R Browne is the one who let me know about Trenner & Friedl. Before his reply to one of my posts a year ago, I had not heard of them at all. At the time I wasn't in the market for speakers, but a few months ago I started looking around again and remembered his post. Since then I've read everything I could find including slogging through some reviews in German (which I haven't read fluently since high school but I can still do better than Google translate). I also found a review with some fairly encouraging frequency response and distortion measurements of the Art, and another with frequency response measurements of the Pharaoh which looked pretty even for a wide baffle, high efficiency design. Finding those measurements meant a lot to me because when I read about Trenner & Friedl's design philosophy I was kind of skeptical.
Edits: 12/29/16
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- I'm also interested in Trenner & Friedl - Dave_K 17:26:36 12/29/16 (0)
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