Years in the Making — Meet Our New NRD Speakers!

👉 Allie: https://gr-research.com/allie/ 👉 Maddie: https://gr-research.com/maddie/ For years I’ve been fascinated by the way different loudspeaker designs interact with a listening room — especially the sense of openness and spatial realism I’ve experienced with great open-baffle speakers. That curiosity eventually led to a collaboration with Danny Richie of GR Research. Together, we set out to explore whether some of that expansive, room-filling presentation could be achieved in a more traditional boxed loudspeaker design. The result is the beginning of the NRD Series, starting with two speakers built around the same core philosophy: Allie and Maddie. Both models use a small wide-band driver to handle most of the critical vocal range, combined with a carefully integrated rear-firing ambience driver designed to introduce subtle spatial cues into the listening room. The goal is a presentation that feels coherent, natural, and connected to the space around you. While Allie represents the more compact stand-mount expression of this concept, Maddie expands on the same design approach with deeper bass extension and greater room-filling authority. During the voicing process, we also explored technologies developed by Caelin Gabriel at Shunyata Research, including KPIP v2 conductor treatment and HARP resonance-reduction modules. Incorporating these ideas ultimately helped refine the soundstage and imaging in ways that felt meaningful during our listening sessions. This project was never about replacing other loudspeaker philosophies — it was about chasing a particular listening experience that has resonated with me for many years. If you’d like to learn more about Allie and Maddie, you can find full details here: https://gr-research.com/nrd-series/ As always, thank you for being part of the journey and for supporting what we do here on New Record Day. 💎💎💎 Speakers reviewed and recommend! 💎💎💎 Bookshelf: Elac Unifi 2.0: https://amzn.to/2OrL5RW Elac UB5: https://amzn.to/3qo2msU Elac Debut 2.0: https://amzn.to/3uVfWar Elac Debut Reference: https://amzn.to/2OnQU2W SVS Ultra: https://amzn.to/3uXIkZJ JBL Studio 530: https://amzn.to/3uVagNL Floorstanding: Q Acoustics Concept 500: https://amzn.to/3ddGkEx SVS Ultra: https://amzn.to/3qo2msU SVS Prime Pinnacle: https://amzn.to/2MMYt2J Elac Debut 2.0: https://amzn.to/3ruZRX7 Elac Unifi 2.0 UF52: https://amzn.to/3uXJa8P Elac UF5: https://amzn.to/3e9ri4F Triangle Borea Bro 8: https://adorama.rfvk.net/Ygg9oO PSB Alpha T20: https://amzn.to/3uS2swa ⭐️ Follow NRD ⭐️   / ​     / ​     / nrdreviews​   💪🏻 Support NRD 💪🏻   / newrecordday​   Donate via Paypal: [email protected] Disclaimer: The links provided are amazon affiliate links: I earn a small commission on purchases at no additional cost to you! I use the funds to help grow the channel, investing in better equipment for the reviews and video production! Thank you!