Yeah John, come on, give it up already..

I'm currently running 17 year old midbass and would like to try something a little newer

 

Paul, time for a road trip. Do you know where he lives ?!?!!? Muaaaaah ha haaaaa

 

Genesis was a rather famous manufacturer from England who is apparently out of business, as best as I can tell. They made sinfoni level amps which were highly coveted and stupid high price in the US (The DLS amps always looked like the Genesis amps (or is it vice versa)).
I met the gents from Genesis a few years back when they were "demoing" these speakers, they came in a nice wooden suitcase and everything was top shelf. The demo didn't go well as the car with the speakers in it never made it to Vegas! Some kind of car crash...
The Genesis speakers are similar to the later Alpine F#1 speakers, they were Scanspeak Revelators with modifications (new frame, spider (I think), some water proofing and maybe a different surround) coupled with a scanspeak ring radiator tweeter and a huge crossover. My criticisms of that particular Scanspeak model is a tendency to a 'predictable sound' with an overly full midbass with a predictable but exaggerated timbre every time (listen to a Sonus Faber from 7 years ago). The Genesis has the positives that are typical of paper woofers ( full bass, realistic vocals, good to very good inner detail, and limited resonances) but they dont sound exactly like the other Revelators which is a good thing.
Zaph has tested the Revelator line and likes the performance and low distortion

 

So John............. I may have missed it, but how did YOU get this set ?!?!?!?

 

eBay bAby there are pearls sold on there all the time

pick your over priced poison from yesterday and it will be there today, the good news is those who buy expensive crap tend to take care of it: F#1, P99, Genesis, adcom, Audison Thesis, zapco, arc, Nakamichi 1200, the JBL crown amps, McIntosh, Denon Z1 and TRU copper series are often there at 20% list price

you take a chance with eBay and you take a chance used. If I am buying new I tend to go to retailers. For instance- there is a gent from Hong Kong that sells the coolest stuff (Panasonics tubed HU, Marantz car audio amps etc.) who is very trustworthy

 

Hmmmmm, Ebay is a dangerous bird. Sometimes you win but mostly you don't.

Speaking of those rare hen's, I have squirelled away a Tru Tech Copper Hybrid tube amp........ not the C7.4 but the C7.4t. Often pulled out of the box to stare at and then put back.

 

I listened to gensis in there demo car at CES, very detailed, closest comparsion I have personally heard was B&W's mids.
heard alot of good scan speaks.. I'd assume they need alot of break intime to really come alive.

 

agreed both are plus size speakers so measure prior to purchase (I have that peerless on a shelf due to that but it looks to be killer) and Usher is a very low distortion product, the South Koreans are very aggressive on building the very best driver for less than its competition

 

The 830883 are deep. They suffer on the lows in a door though, needs lots of EQ.

 

Dynaudio Esotar2 650 http://www.dynaudio.com/eng/auto/esotar/esotar650.php