Any in depth Reactor reviews or users here?

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I had a brief listen to a single Reactor on Saturday. A shop in town had it on display together with the three Phantom models.

I now understand what the 'missing' midrange is about. The front 'full range' is actually just a rather large tweeter. So very little real mid range there. To compensate the side woofers produce parts of the (lower) mid range. I put an ear close to one of the woofers and could hear quite a lot of mid range from it. The woofers are not ideal mid range drivers and as mids are more directional the side placement create a strange effect on some recordings.

In comparison a pair of Golds had a proper mid range reproduction. Of course it is not fair to compare a single Reactor to a pair of Golds, but it also made the difference quite clear.

Attempting to define a cross over frequency for the Reactor without measurements will be just speculation so I'll skip that
I still think Reactor is good. The tiny size and prodigious bass output is really impressive! With the right placement (much better than in the shop) and maybe stereo I am sure one can get good results.

I wrote this back in March 2019. We finally know the crossover for the front driver:a high-ish 525Hz at 24dB/okt. (from a review in Soundstage: https://www.soundstagesimplifi.com/index...udspeakers )
A different posting on ASR https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum...ost-269112 shows the step response of the Reactor. https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum...png.39247/ Apart from the fact that the front driver is connected with inverted polarity, the step response is very nice...