From Dagogo:
THE ENDING YOU DO NOT EXPECT
After all this you expect me to say I love the Nimbus White so much that I feel like I will keep it forever. I will not. You expect me to say that I will enjoy years of use of this speaker. I will not. Why not? Because I am already moving up the Vapor Audio ladder. That is correct, I have placed my order for a set of the current top-of-the-line Joule White speakers and you can bet I will be writing an owner’s review when I get them nicely settled into my room! I do not look forward to the months long wait until they are built and finished (Note that the website says merely curing some finishes can take a month!), and I do not look forward to pauses of days, perhaps a week or more, in conversation with Ryan. Through the emotionally exhausting process of bringing these speakers to fruition I will keep one fact clearly in mind; If this is what Ryan can accomplish when hitting a hard price point and the current top model unhindered by value pricing is only $3K higher, then I am going after it! Having discussed the design and performance differences between the Joule White and Nimbus White extensively with Ryan I am confident that the move to the Joule will be worthwhile.
Why on earth would I do such a thing? Over time if an audiophile gets to enough shows and hears enough speakers he learns about the designers who have giftedness to design not just supreme but extreme speakers. Ryan Scott and his partners, Peter and Ed, have that giftedness, as is evidenced in the Nimbus White. When he said to me that he believes the Joule White is perceptually 30% better in terms of sound quality than the Nimbus White, and at a cost of only 30% more, I knew he was not exaggerating and I was sold. They won’t be here for several months, as they are backordered, but rest assured you will be given the full report. Are you ready to take a deep breath, calm your jittery soul and get in line?
Is this crazy? Is this stupid? No, it’s what a great number of audiophiles have to do – switch to a speaker that has not been auditioned. Thousands of us do so annually, often chasing the higher model in a manufacturer’s lineup. Even though my rule has been to audition speakers I buy, I’m jumping off into the Vaporous void for the reasons given. I simply have concluded that if the Joule White did not exist then I would be at the Vapor Audio premier level, a lovely place to stay. But the Joule White is beckoning and at a price – so, what’s new? – too reasonable to dismiss. I simply made a mistake by not going for the top of the line, and I’m going to correct it straightaway.
