Quote Originally Posted by filecat13 View Post
I'd forgotten about this until I got spammed back to the forum by another thread I'd subscribed to. Your skepticism deserves a response, and I neglected to do so.




As simple as it gets.
  1. I went to CAS with no intent to purchase.
  2. I heard JBL Everest II loudspeakers while there.
  3. I was blown away by the MF and HF produced by those horns. Best of show IMO, despite the problematic room.
  4. I went back to that room more than once to be sure I really liked high-priced horns that much.
  5. I knew I could not afford $66,000 speakers.
  6. The dealer had $44,000 JBL K2 speakers with similar horns/drivers sitting unused on the same room and had no plans to hook them up. (Why bring them?)
  7. As the show closed for the day, we prevailed on him to hook them up after most everyone had left.
  8. Upon hearing them that one time I was compelled to get them. They were nearly as good as the SOTA K2s (and available for less than 44k).
  9. Without hearing those unobtainable (to me) SOTA Everests I would never have desired to hear the K2s and decided to purchase them. I cannot think of a logical sequence in which I would have sought out a dealer to listen to K2s before going to the show, since I was not in the market for expensive speakers.
  10. Hearing $66k speakers, then hearing how very close much cheaper speakers are makes a (less than) $44,000 expenditure seem "reasonable," whereas, going out to look/listen/buy $44k speakers seems "unreasonable" to me. That's why I'd never go to the trouble of seeking a hard-to-find dealer to get the speakers I ended up with.
At least my original story was entertaining. Thanks for that.
Filecat13, you luck JBLophile you, congrats. Enjoy the K2's.

For sure I wish I had you problems vis-ŕ-vis SOTA. For me spending $44k on speakers would be only slightly more absurd than spending the same amount on an automobile.