12/2/2023 0 Comments Stereophile benchmark ahb2![]() As in all the Tritons, the Reference's tweeter is GoldenEar's version of the Heil Air-Motion Transformer, from the 1970s. The Triton Reference is larger than the Triton One, and while a cloth "sock" covered all of the lesser Tritons, the Reference's enclosure is finished in high-gloss black, and there is a deep-curved grille in the shape of a vertical half-column. I was sufficiently impressed by the sound the Triton References were making that I asked for a pair to review once the speaker was in production. "Sandy Gross has done it again!" enthused Robert Deutsch in his show report. But when I bumped into Gross at the 2017 CES, he walked me to the GoldenEar room at the Venetian to listen to his ultimate Triton, the Reference, which would cost $8498/pair. In February 2015, Robert Deutsch reviewed what was then the top of the Triton line, the One, priced at a very affordable $4999.98/pair. Our first review of a Triton was of the Two, in February 2012. When next I heard from him, it was to announce that, along with his wife, Anne Conaway, and his former partner at DefTech, Don Givogue, he had started a new loudspeaker company, GoldenEar Technology, Inc., and that the plain black loudspeaker was the first in a line of models to be named Triton. Retirement? He showed me a photo of a plain, cloth-covered, black tower speaker and promised to keep in touch. Knowing that Gross was no longer associated with Definitive, I asked him what he was getting up to in his retirement. Back in January 2010, in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, I was prowling the corridors of the Venetian Hotel when I bumped into loudspeaker auteur Sandy Gross, cofounder first of Polk Audio and then of Definitive Technology. ![]()
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