[audioguy3107]

Originally Posted by Charles

Ivan, it takes patience to get exactly what you want. The trip to Italy would be to hear the Se17 in the SF demonstration room. I am encouraged the wait is a year because that means the demand is high (relatively) and that you are getting a truly custom speaker yet one that is selling. Take the trip now, get on the waiting list, and get everything else ready including the room. I am excited and happy for you. I believe it will be worth the wait but you must get started. Don't wind up with some monstrosity.

I'm sorry, it's just hard for me to believe that the SE 17s with the Accuphase system would be so much better than the Burmester/SF Aida system that one would spend how many hundreds of thousands of $$$$$ to get there. There's no question that it may be a more technologically advanced loudspeaker and perhaps the best that Sonus has developed but light years ahead to justify the time and expense? Can't see it. Even though the caveats about the "super speakers" have been well laid out in this thread, I think you'd have to be there in order to advance sound quality to the point that the Burmester/Aida system would be a distant second place.

- Buck