Alpha P5 - Bookshelf

First, I love Canadians. Sure you folks don't want to be our 51st state. Good grief, for one biggie you wouldn't win any football games. All due to illegal procedure penalties' (motion) on every play.
Many moons ago (1999) was using a Sim Audio Moon amp with very expensive speakers to be unnamed. Plus audiophile tweaks, cables, French Complete CD player, and stacks of audio mags. Then PSB entered my life. A good buddy stopped in with his unbelievable inexpensive speakers. He was wanting to hear them on my system. Think they were Alpha 5s. Not sure due to fainting after listening. A joke, I was just dizzy. Well was not ready for what I heard. Very little difference. Boy Howdy! My speaks were massive, 160lbs, with huge multi wolfs, and tweets. How could this little inexpensive Canadian speaks sound so so good. Buddy left them for the weekend. Played and beat them hard. This aint right. It was right. Was busy with other projects, but sold my entire system and never looked back. I was ticked off. I had interconnects costing more than the PSBs. Retired moved to Ozark lakes area. Never looked back... Until recently. Mainly due to oldness mobility issues needed new hobbies. Had a thought, and started building an audiophile system. Had old music collection and had grabbed vinyl+CDs over the years. El wifo's not so happy memory of the moon system, built this on the *inexpensive. Basic Cambridge 25 watt per ch. amp, Bellari pre amp and a E.Q. Denon 300 f (LP Gear Stylus + TT tweaks) Pioneer CD player made all connects myself. No Bluetooth, no streaming, no remote, just old fashioned analog. DADA..Oh, and my trusty Grado 325 headphones. Only glitch.....I mis-ordered the only speaker maker considered. PSB. Ordered PSB Alpha 3's meant to order 5s. They arrived. So, in the meantime hooked up those 3s. El wifo and and I both stunned. What great sound from such a tiny pc. Tip o hat Paul and support folks. Almost kept them, well I actually did keep um. Yet had pictured the 5s as a perfect match.... So.....hurt the budget a bit. Well the 5s came in a few weeks later. Even better sound due to size. Put the 3s on top of the 5s for storage until sending them back. Looked cool, and once you feed them they hang around. Kept admiring how cool they looked. Couldn't walk by without thinking, "so cool." Finally gave in, bought a speaker switch... A, B, and most importantly AB selection. Which plays all 4. I had to remove the little I inch (3 Kilometers in metric) rubber bumpers off base of the 3s. I now by accident wanted a small version of the famous 1970s stacked Advents. Not stacked one on top but inverted so wolfers were next each other. One right side up, one down. Not sure what the tweeters do, but wow the system took on another level of sound. Powerful, dialed in bass, dialed back bass, tremendous mid range. El Wifo commented this system sounded better than the circa 1999 set. At times I think so too. Dire Straits Band o Bros double excellent.. The Band 45 RPM double, Dave Brubeck Take 5, Sade, some Mo FI jazz and your better mastered artists sound great. Sinatra and George Jones vocals too cool.
*In putting this nice system together I constantly read nice equipment reviews. Most seemed by some law to include, starter, cheap, first system, budget, or the most insulting. Non serious listeners. I'm adding a vintage Teac cassette now and a reel to reel later. But, can state this system sounds and looks good in my opinion. I've heard a lot worse, with expensive mismatched equipment to boot. The inverted stack of the PSBs changed the sound, but the other components have to do jobs as well. I am completely happy with all parts. So, next time I'm asked or advise a newbie regarding the 2 channel world, will not use the above descriptors if they choose.

I use a Rega Planar II turntable with a glass table and a dampening pad on top of it. Having worked with A&M Records for 20 years, I was lucky to get any audiophile pressed recording I wanted. When I throw on the Police Zenyatta Mendata album, the drums are in your face with no distortion. Guitars, bass and vocals are bright but one never is at risk of overriding the others, a truly balanced performance. My only regret is that I foolishly began to get rid of some extra vinyl I had in exchange for cd's, so instead of having 3500 albums to listen to on these speakers I have only 1200 or so. I also have an old pair of working PSB Beta II's that came out in the 70's and they still sound amazing. I gave those to my daughter when I set up a system for her. They competed directly with Visonic Little David's and were more affordable to a university student on a budget that the Little David's. I doubt I ever will buy another set of speakers as these should see me off this mortal coil.

One of my old PSB 800 speakers finally gave up the ghost. I'm very happy with the Alpha P5 speakers as a replacement.

Blown away by the Bass and Soundstage for Bookshelf Speakers...BUT should we ? Their PSB's - Paul Barton and Company always ahead of the curve...Once they were broken in the sound quality was incredible-- Changed my setup from home theatre to 4 speaker Stereo with my Marantz NR1200- going back to the 1970's sound set up and loving it.....

I´m surprised with the bass, I think I won´t even need a subwoofer with these in my small room, It shines with female voices, nice unfatiguing treble, some mids tend to feel busy with complex music, and the deep bass could be for tight. Extremely happy with them

Really nice speaker for the price range. I have 4 p5s I use as surrounds and 2 p3s used for heights they work very well in this application. 7.2.2 ch