Golden Ear - Triton (closer to the) Reference

[MortenB]

Forgive me if this is off-topic while we are awaiting more juries coming out, but this is my memory of the day when the TRefs came in an T Ones went out

Ha ha… Cool picture of happy audiophile(s) Interesting to hear, that you had the One before T Ref. Was that the One, or the One R? And what difference in sound do you hear?

 

[higher sound]

Good that you have opened the cabinet. I can write forever and never get a point across. I was at a point where I would stop posting in the thread, as I have explained the process to the best of my abilities (in a second language). The rest is up to you guys.

Seeing things for yourself is much better.

Maybe you can find solutions I could not. Excellent. It seems you don’t mind modifying the cabinets by drilling new holes etc, and this for sure opens up possibilities, for instance installing the new cross over up behind the mid-woofers as mentioned above. I wanted a solution without external modifications to the cabinets, and that limits the options.

OK, now I understand your idea. That will work for sure, but there will be longer wiring, more connectors in the signal path and a not reverible modification to the ‘’back plate’’ (unless you make a new one of course). For me both the exterior modification, and the extra wire and connectors in the signal path is something I would never do as it will compromise sound. But that’s just me… Very cool set-up though for comparing the original and the new I would love to hear your impression from such an A - B comparison

And yes, you would need to disconnect the input to the DSP board from the speaker terminals, and use the RCA for input to the active bass system instead. My system is super minimalistic: A turntable and two boxes from Thöress in Germany. No preamp out possibility in this system, so for me one of the great thing with these speakers is, that the internal DSP + amp can run from the signal on the speaker terminals.

Morten
You have the patience of a God!
Best HigherSound

 

[Mikko Mattila]

Ha ha… Cool picture of happy audiophile(s) Interesting to hear, that you had the One before T Ref. Was that the One, or the One R? And what difference in sound do you hear?

More than subtle improvements: Better details and overall transparency , mids and upper mids more forward, silkier highs; Better imaging, deeper depth. And yet, still very much the same. Worth of every penny, though we liked so much the Ones, too.

 

[MortenB]

Thank you Mikka. This must be the One, and not the One R? I’m asking as I understand the One R and the T Ref should be quite close in sound, but so far the T Ref is the only Golden Ears I have heard.

 

[Mikko Mattila]

Thank you Mikka. This must be the One, and not the One R? I’m asking as I understand the One R and the T Ref should be quite close in sound, but so far the T Ref is the only Golden Ears I have heard.

Correct, the Ones, not the One.R.
Acquired mine quite early 2016...first pair here. Unfortunately never had chance to hear One.R:s. I understood they're very close to TRefs.
Sad if the new owners of the GE discontinues the Ref line with no successor as it looks.
Sandy Gross got the concept right, high performance vs price ie value. GE had an amazing engineering team to make it realized at this price point.

 

[MortenB]

According to the Danish dealer where I bought my (now discontinued) T Ref, there will be a new top model out soon. It will replace both the T Ref and the One R.

Basically a bigger brother to the T66 model.

 

[Markuzz]

I understood the same. It is sad that Sandy Gross will not be part of the development anymore. Also GoldenEar is sold (again) from The Quest Group (AudioQuest) to PML.

I find the looks of the T66 very nice. Especially the feet are a major improvement.

 

[Mikko Mattila]

According to the Danish dealer where I bought my (now discontinued) T Ref, there will be a new top model out soon. It will replace both the T Ref and the One R.

Basically a bigger brother to the T66 model.

Interesting, good to know.
T66 like pedestal/feet, bi-wiring, fashionable colors...what else do we wish or expect?
Re T66, our dealer told, when compared side-by-side to One.Refs, 2/3s who heard both, preferred One.Refs....unscientific statistics.
Not heard them myself.
Hope new owners of the GE would not let to compromise quality over making more profit to investors. Also i'm curious to see how the tariffs will hit in the States, which is the main market. This may have an impact where GE will source manufacturing.

 

[Mikko Mattila]

When talking about TRef's feet/pedestial - is anyone using IsoAcoustics Gaia or similar. Any impact on perceived sound?