Category Archives: Tower speakers

2015 Stereophile recommended components

I like Stereophile‘s idea of ranking components with grades. The latest ratings divide speakers into categories according to how much bass they produce and how deep it goes. This makes a lot of sense, but confuses me a bit. . The ten Class … Continue reading

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Hurrah for WireWorld and GoldenEar Tchnology

Danish audiophile magazine Nomono reviews WireWorld’s Aurora power cable. Here’s the conclusion: Our listening comparisons showed that especially the precision in the left/right sound stage was significantly better defined with the Wireworld cable than with other existing power cables. When we switched … Continue reading

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Wylie and TAS review the Triton Five

Normally when GoldenEar has anew speaker review I get an email fromSandy Gross which I just cut and paste. Voila! Newsletter! This time it’s different. The new review by Jacob Heilbrunnin the September The Absolute Sound was at first more of the same nice stuff all … Continue reading

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Another review of the GoldenEar Technology Triton Five

Brent Butterworth reviewed the new GoldenEar Technology Triton Five. If you want to read this new review and two others, they are at the top of this page on GoldenEar website. If not, here is his conclusion: Conclusion- The Triton Five is … Continue reading

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The GoldenEar Triton Five rides again!

Digital Trends magazine did something unusual: the reviewer wrote a preview of a forthcoming full review of the GoldenEar Technology Triton Five speaker, and he included a video showing the speaker with and without the grille, with a commentary.  As usual … Continue reading

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Triton Five review follow-up

Following my review of the GoldenEar Technologies Triton Five a subscriber wrote to ask the recommended break-in time. My reply: They say 200 hours. I put mine on repeat with a disco CD at a loud level for 7 days. … Continue reading

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Enter the Triton Five – a review

I’ll start off simple: The Triton Fives are great speakers – especially at the $2000/pair price. It’s like listening to the Triton Ones but with regular woofers instead of powered subwoofers. Yes, the powered subs of the Triton Ones and … Continue reading

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GoldenEar Triton Five Announced

GoldeEar Technology announced a new speaker model at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show. The Triton Five is a non-powered tower very similar to the Triton Seven, but bigger. Well, more than just bigger. Instead having two 5 inch bass/midrange drivers … Continue reading

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Quest for perfection (or something like)

“… but the highs are missing a little bit of sparkle.” That is an actual quote from an owner’s evaluation of Tung Sol 6550 tubes posted on Upscale Audio’s website. But not to worry, as the writer continues “However the … Continue reading

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The GoldenEar Technology Triton Ones are here!

Compared to to other GoldenEar dealers I am having a very late start with the Triton Ones. After months of delays they arrived two days before the start of a ten day family vacation. That was good in one way … Continue reading

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