{"id":622,"date":"2016-01-07T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:23:52","slug":"the-evolution-of-goldenear-triton-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-evolution-of-goldenear-triton-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution\u00a0of GoldenEar\u00a0Triton speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong> In 2010 the first GoldenEar Technology tower speaker,\u00a0the\u00a0Triton\u00a0Two, arrived. A $3,000\/pair tower with a folded ribbon tweeter (called HFVR), two bass\/midranges, two subwoofers, two passives, and 1200 watts\u00a0built into\u00a0each\u00a0tower, it was an\u00a0immediate\u00a0sensation, getting\u00a0twenty five rave reviews\/awards, most of whom compared its performance to\u00a0speakers\u00a0costing\u00a0up to $20,000. (All Triton reviews and awards are at\u00a0http:\/\/www.goldenear.com\/products\/triton-series?gktab=6)<\/a><\/p>\n

A year later the $2,000\/pair Triton Three came out, essentially a\u00a0smaller\u00a0version of the\u00a0Triton\u00a0Two, with the HFVR tweeter, one bass\/midrange, one subwoofer, and 800\u00a0watts.\u00a0Its 4.5″ bass\/mid\u00a0benefited\u00a0by some design refinement but the smaller overall size worked against it. It did not get the\u00a0attention and adulation of its big brother, though its one reviewer\u00a0preferred\u00a0it to the Two when the bigger sound is not needed. To me it is the perfect\u00a0blend\u00a0of a monitor speaker and a subwoofer for full range performance in a smaller room.<\/p>\n

In 2014 came the $1400\/pair Triton Seven, with the HFVR tweeter, two new bass\/midranges, one subwoofer, and two passives. (no powered subwoofer) This one hit the spot and got fourteen good reviews. As an illustration of the work GoldenEar\u00a0spends\u00a0refining its products, one of my customers so\u00a0preferred\u00a0the midrange of the Seven to that of his Triton Two that he traded in his Twos. Of course it must be mentioned that he has a larger SVS subwoofer and a smallish room so he didn’t need the bass of the Two. It has been mostly popular in smaller rooms and in home theaters with a subwoofer.<\/p>\n

In 2015 the $2,000\/pair Triton Five arrived,\u00a0essentially\u00a0a bigger and better version of the Seven. Bigger\u00a0cabinet, bigger bass\/midranges, four passives. And not just bigger, definitely\u00a0better, because GoldenEar’s\u00a0engineers had been working their magic of constant refinement and development. Most listeners said that the sound from the\u00a0mid-bass\u00a0to the top treble was\u00a0a step above all the previous Tritons, as you\u00a0can see the seven reviews at the link above.<\/p>\n

But shortly later in 2015 the\u00a0ultimate\u00a0Triton arrived – the $5,000\/pair Triton One. It’s bigger and better in every way than all the previous models, though admittedly the Five’s mids and highs are so\u00a0similar that it could be a close debate. after all, both\u00a0the Five and One were\u00a0developed very closely in time and share\u00a0many\u00a0refinements. The Triton One is the latest and greatest achievement of GoldenEar’s design staff, and was named\u00a02015\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Speaker of the Year\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by\u00a0three audiophile magazines.<\/p>\n

But wait – while the Triton One is the greatest, it is no longer the latest. At CES 2016 GoldenEar will be showing two new models – the $3500\/pair\u00a0Triton Two+<\/strong>\u00a0and the $2500\/pair\u00a0Triton Three+. <\/strong>My\u00a0first\u00a0word of these new speakers came\u00a0two\u00a0days ago in an email from Sandy Gross. Here is what he says:<\/p>\n

“The new\u00a0Triton Two+\u00a0and\u00a0Triton Three+\u00a0incorporate\u00a0Triton One\u00a0technology and voicing to dramatically upgrade their sonic performance into Triton One territory. In fact, within their dynamic range and bass capabilities, they sound almost virtually identical to the Triton Ones in terms of voicing, soundstage and imaging. <\/em>The Triton Three+ is in stock and shipping, we expect the Triton Two+ in stock and shipping around\u00a0January 20th.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So now we have improved versions of the Two and Three, upgraded in sound quality to be comparable in sound to the One, though not as capable of the\u00a0dynamics\u00a0and bass of the One. This is exciting! I listened to the Two as my main speaker for four years and its dynamics and bass were\u00a0always\u00a0amazing. I am\u00a0really excited about hearing these new Tritons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 In 2010 the first GoldenEar Technology tower speaker,\u00a0the\u00a0Triton\u00a0Two, arrived. A $3,000\/pair tower with a folded ribbon tweeter (called HFVR), two bass\/midranges, two subwoofers, two passives, and 1200 watts\u00a0built into\u00a0each\u00a0tower, it was an\u00a0immediate\u00a0sensation, getting\u00a0twenty five rave reviews\/awards, most of whom … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[160,74],"tags":[23,13,76,141,124,77,97,75,157,234,98],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldenear-technology","category-tower-speakers","tag-goldenear","tag-goldenear-technology","tag-sandy-gross","tag-st-louis","tag-the-sound-room","tag-the-speaker-and-stereo-store","tag-triton-2","tag-triton-7","tag-triton-five","tag-triton-three","tag-triton-two"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6f3d7-a2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}