GT AUDIO WORKS
A VOICE IN LOUDSPEAKERS TO LET YOUR MUSIC SING
We just got back from Capital Audiofest 2019.
We had a great time and had a killer setup.
"....I have heard Greg’s GTA3.1R speakers many times and can attest to their directness, clarity, and super-descriptive spatiality. They can go one-on-one with the best speakers at any price, and they cost only $23,500/pair..."
Herb Reichert Stereophile
"GT Audio Works showstopping sound..."
Eric Franklin Shook Part Time audiophile
"they will fill said room with holographic, soulful music which lacks nothing in clarity, detail or dynamics. Super-fast too!"
Matthew Clott Enjoy The Music
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Capital_Audiofest_2019/Clott/
Video links
https://youtu.be/zwo1KRca4Nk?t=1907
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We just got back from Capital Audiofest 2019.
We had a great time and had a killer setup.
"....I have heard Greg’s GTA3.1R speakers many times and can attest to their directness, clarity, and super-descriptive spatiality. They can go one-on-one with the best speakers at any price, and they cost only $23,500/pair..."
Herb Reichert Stereophile
"GT Audio Works showstopping sound..."
Eric Franklin Shook Part Time audiophile
"they will fill said room with holographic, soulful music which lacks nothing in clarity, detail or dynamics. Super-fast too!"
Matthew Clott Enjoy The Music
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Capital_Audiofest_2019/Clott/
Video links
https://youtu.be/zwo1KRca4Nk?t=1907
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WE HAD A GREAT SHOW AT AXPONA 2019.....THE ROOM WAS SMALL BUT WE MANAGED TO GET GREAT SOUND.
HERE ARE A FEW COMMENTS AND VIDEOS
Quote Mike Boviard Suncoast Audio
"GT Audioworks planar magnetic speakers. Magnepan has stiff competition. This company based out of New Jersey (I believe) has taken planar magnetic technology to a whole new level. Wonderfully musical and transparent. A true show stopper."
Peter Breuninger GT Audio Planar Magnetic speakers, Sound Insight LF system, Zanden electronic and Kronos Sparta. This system fully pressurized the room with Starship Enterprise holodeck reality. Amazing!
AV showrooms video review
An informal listening session with Zanden electronics
GT Audio Works speakers can be heard exclusively at Sound Insight Massapequa NY
Capital AudioFest 2018
video link
FROM A WHISPER TO ROLLING THUNDER THEY WILL DO IT ALL WITH AGILITY AND EASE.
WE WILL BE GLAD TO DEMO THE SYSTEM
AT STEVE'S MASSAPEQUA NY SHOWROOM
FLY INTO JFK NYC.
WE WILL PICK YOU UP AT THE AIRPORT.
SPEND A DAY OR TWO LISTENING TO YOUR FAVORITE RECORDINGS.
DONT TAKE ANYONES WORD FOR IT,
HEAR FOR YOURSELF.
GT Audio Works GTA3R Planar/Ribbon Speakers
with matching
Sound Insight SI600 Open Baffle Servo Subwoofers
In Cyber Metallic Grey
We just returned from CAF 2018 it was a great show.
Here are a few videos and some comments from visitors to our room.
COMMENTS....
To be fair and transparent about this, the GT Audio Works GT3R planar ribbon speakers do not — (I repeat) DO NOT — need sub-woofers. Yet the exhibitors decided that the GT3R’s would best deployed at CAF with the additions of a few Sound Insight’s SI600 self-powered open-baffle sub-woofers. The sub-woofer configuration was six 12″ servo-driven subs per side. It was absolute madness all the way down to 16Hz. Do we need this? Was it fantastically hilarious and serious at the same time? Definitely to both.
"Sound Insight from Massapequa, Long Island brought along the newest version of their big hybrid planar ribbon/dynamic, open baffle woofer system to CAF. The speaker’s midrange panel runs $17k and goes down to 50 Hz. The diagphram is a bit out the ordinary not using common materials like Mylar. Instead the GTA3r uses a special composite material from Japan that allows the use of copper wiring on the panel. Price on the open baffle woofer system depends on the number of sub woofers; the all out towers arrangement shown at CAF runs $28k. The rest of the system’s electronics consisted of PASS XA 60.8 amplifiers, PASS XS preamplifier and phonostage. A $6800 Semper Sonus TE1 epicyclic drive (rim) Turntable from Portugal outfitted with a Schick tonearm and Lyra Kleos cartridge spun 12-inch black discs. Wiring was provided by Triode Labs.
The soundstage was massive yet every instrument’ was precisely separated, layered and located. There was a real magic in the midrange with vocals and the system was very transparent. Definitely some speakers to keep an ear out for!"
Moving on... I entered GT Audio Works' room. Seriously folks, GT Audio Works has a really good thing going and when you start to compare their offerings to other high-end audiophile systems, you begin to understand that they're knocking it out of the park (both price- and performance-wise). Steve (Insight Audio) played me a song called "Earth Drums" (I'll dig up the name/artist) that left me mesmerized. It's a dynamic track that I'll definitely use in future reviews... but it's sound on their gear was ohhhhhhh so sweet. Very real and naked sounding with imaging and depth that's hard to put into words.
I've been a fan of GT Audio Works since I stumbled upon Greg's CAF room some four (perhaps five?) years ago... and every year I return to be wowed again. Total, legit, speakers... and they're unique too, because Greg Takesh builds them by hand.
Quote Kemper Holt AV Showrooms
This is the system I wanted to take home from CAF. In our show wrap up for AVShowrooms called Reviewer's View, we each pick a product or room to take home from a show and this entire system set a new standard for me, just sensational in every respect, exciting dynamics from a planar, very transparent with musical detail levels, and open baffle bass with no boom or bloat and powerful extreme low bass that hits with chest-thumping impact and easily pressurizes without overloading the room, great job Greg Takesh on the GTA 3Rs and Steve Rabitz for the SI 600 subs and Pass electronics!
A few videos I recorded of the system we will be showing at CAF 2018
A BIT ABOUT THE DESIGN
These speakers and subs mate extremely well together and have been designed for integrated in room dialed in performance.
The dipole nature of the speakers demands a sub woofer with the same dipole radiating pattern for the best performance.
Weather listening to large powerful orchestral and electronic music or delicate and intimate acoustic instruments, this system is adept at reproducing any recording with equal agility. The speakers and subs are available in a variety of options such as custom colors, finish, binding post type, floor spikes and ribbon tweeter capacitor.
The new one of a kind wide band driver in the GTA3R uses a proprietary membrane material that reduces resonances common in stretched diaphragm type speakers to a new low, along with the fact that the driver uses no crossover and is direct coupled to the driving amp gives it excellent resolution and efficiency. The GTA3R is designed and manufactured in house and uses no OEM drivers.
The SI series of open baffle subs are available in a variety of woofer configurations to suit your room size.
From two 12" drivers per side for smaller to medium sized listening rooms all the way up to six 12" drivers per side for large rooms.
These subs are fully powered and adjustable for all bass parameters for excellent in room integration.
Response is down to 16 hz, yes...even on the smaller subs !!
Who is GT Audio Works ?
I have had a passion for building speakers since I was in my early 20's, 30 years later I started GTAW. Over those 30 years, I built all types of speakers , eventually settling on the magnetic planar/ribbon dipole as my favorite.
While I enjoyed owning most of the planar magnetic and electrostatic speakers made at the time, in my opinion they each had their strong and weak points. After years of building and listening and rebuilding and more listening , I came upon the idea of my full range planar driver. The GTA3R is the full realization of that idea.
I designed the GTA3R planar driver to operate full range, no crossover , directly wired to the amp. Why do I believe this so important ?
Consider what a crossover does. It takes the full range music signal, segments it and contours each segment to feed multiple drivers, each designed to reproduce a portion of the music signal.
My biggest issue with this approach is, our ears and brain are very adept at deciphering very minuscule difference in sound, especially in the critical midrange. Breaking this critical range up and reproducing it with 2 or more drivers of different materials and accompanying electrical delay creates a discrepancy we may not notice at first, but after extended listening, you know something is not right.
The GTA3R planar driver is adept at reproducing a large piece of the music signal from 40 hz to 6khz, it is intimately coupled with your amplifier to reproduce every nuance of the music signal your amp provides. None of the distortions and power robbing issues associated with crossovers.
To use an apt analogy.....consider speaking to someone in your native language, there is a direct understanding of the conversation. Now consider speaking to someone through a translator, you will get the general idea of the conversation, but you will be not be hearing the speakers intended message, only the translators approximation of that message. The conversation will not flow naturally, it will be choppy by the nature of everything being filtered through he translator.
If you were listening only to acoustic music, the planar driver may satisfy you on its own.
But we want our speakers to reproduce all kinds of music.
The GTA3R's ribbon tweeter is designed with a simple series capacitor 1st order crossover network which is the most phase coherent way to do it. The tweeter is designed to blend in the top octave of the music with as little misinterpretation as possible. Together they make for a full range listening experience that can start, stop and turn on a dime, while resolving every nuance of the music.
Add an open baffle sub woofer and you will turn a very dynamic planar/ribbon speaker into a monster. Pipe organ ? Rock concerts at live levels that sock you in the stomach ?
Just sit back and and listen to your favorite piece of music, immersed in the visceral experience like few speaker systems can replicate.
GTA3R SHOWN WITH SI600 OB SUBWOOFERS
WHY TAKE THE OPINION OF REVIEWERS AND FRIENDS AND BUY SPEAKERS UNHEARD ?
COME HEAR THE GTA3R FOR YOURSELF.
FLY INTO JFK AIRPORT NYC TO AUDITION THE GTA3R'S AND WE WILL DISCOUNT THE COST OF AIRFARE, FROM THE PURCHASE PRICE.
WE WILL PICK YOU UP AT THE AIRPORT.
SPEND THE AFTERNOON IN A FRIENDLY RELAXED NO PRESURE SETTING, LISTENING TO YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC.
Capital Audiofest 2017 show report
GTA3R SPEAKERS WITH SOUND INSIGHT OPEN BAFFLE SUBWOOFERS
AN OUTSTANDING COMBINATION
STATE OF THE ART FULL RANGE PERFORMANCE
AV showrooms
Scott Hull's highlights
Some pics of customers systems
A GTAW customer's great sounding system
Carver Cherry amps, Emotive Audio Sira preamp
VPI TT, Modright CD Player
GTA3R speakers and active stereo subs
Wood is Brazilian Cherry with Wenge trim
More reviews to come but here are a couple
GTA2.5 models pictured below are no longer available, picture to show wood selection.
Subwoofers are no loner built in but available seperately in a variety of configurations and prices.
Bubinga
Jatoba and Tiger Maple
Sapelle
Bubinga and Tiger Maple
Black
AV Showrooms Gold Show Award CAF 2015
Best of Show review from Home Theater Shack
GTA 2.5 with Paradox Pulse electronics and cable