That gave me a chance to listen to them driven by quite a few amplifiers. It took my a while to convince their designer to lend me a pair for a review, but when I finally got them I spent several weeks with them.

Such a room is still only a dream but more or less two years ago, at my friend's house I had a chance to listen to one of the first versions of Alter вЂ“ open baffle speakers, quite reasonable in terms of size. It's been at least 10 years since that single listening session and ever since I still dream about having room big enough to accommodate such huge open baffle speakers. I used to have, and now have another, horn speakers, I liked closed enclosures and transmission line, But still one of the most profound audiophile experiences I'd ever had was a listening session with huge, hand made open baffle speakers equipped with tremendous PHY-PH drivers. As a result my interest laid mostly in non-bass-reflex designs.

I'm not going into details here, as I've written about it many time already вЂ“ simply put, in most cases (I admit not in all of them) there is this coloration, this boomy sound coming out of bass-reflex exhaust that is unacceptable for me. First of all I've never made a secret of my reluctance towards bass-reflex speakers. The top model (at the time), Alter, that I reviewed took me by surprise вЂ“ I was totally delighted. It wasn't my first encounter with products of that company, also those who visited AudioShow 2011 had a chance to listen to a previous model of their speakers.

Here is a chance that at least some of you remember my review of Polish loudspeakers, Ardento Alter (see HERE), that was published in September 2012.

Tomighty change sounds