Dear Paul,
Before introducing any description about the sound of Gobel Majestic speaker I should say the best way is going to Munich and listen to thoes monsters in Gobel factory showroom. Oliver Gobel is very kind and gentelman and warmly host you.
First, I am not in a situation to recommend any thing to audiophiles and I just share my listening experience here.Second, I just speak about Gobel Majestic with 6 subwoofers not other models of Gobel Speakers.High end market is not happy because there are many companies who claim/advertise and spread non-sense information and also their prices are high. In this market finding good equipments is not easy.I think In this market less than 25 (less than 5% percent) audio companies are my favorite, This does not mean my favorite companies produce exactly what I like No, those 20 companies produce good/balance (error free) sound that you can listen for long time.
There are many important things in sound reproduction but in my opinion The most important key is “dynamics” . As you know most low efficiency dynamic driver modern speakers trade off dynamics for better measurements. In this market the Gobel Majestic (+ six subwoofers) is very very dynamic without altering tone beauty. In my opinion The art of Oliver Gobel is finding good balance between “transferring musical core message” (expressivenes) and high fidelity of sound (like dynamics, transparency, …).
I think Gobel Majestic was not happy with CH Precision amplification but even in those condition it was clear that Majestic is a great speaker.
Low power tubes SETs or even 20w push-pull are not enough for Majestic but those monsters do not need huge power, I think 100w (for midrange) and 100w(for bass) class A is enough.
Gobel subwoofer is sealed and active so it does not need extra amplification.
Gobel Majestic is very very impressive at first hours of listening , huge Power , nuclear Energy, Big Scale, super transparent, perfect dynamic range, good bass, fast transient , slow decay … all things are good but the most important thing is Gobel Majestic is very good in transferring musical messages.
Long story short, I think I like it .
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