Grand Cru Essentiel Monitor speakers

Up for your consideration is this pair of monitor speakers from Grand Cru Audio of France.
Beautifully made two way speakers featuring a 2" ribbon tweeter and a 7" bass/midrange woofer. 90db efficient so a relatively easy load.
There is an excellent review in Sound Stage Hifi. It's an excellent review article with some great pictures. Anyone who might have an interest in them should give it a read. I will quote from the conclusion:
"The strengths of Grand Cru Audio’s Essential include: a seamless-sounding integration of the ribbon and midrange-woofer outputs; smoothness and clarity through the upper midrange, the likes of which I haven’t heard from other ribbon-based designs; and very deep bass, given the modest sizes of the speaker’s cabinet and midrange-woofer. I was taken aback by the Essentiels’ topflight soundstaging and imaging, as well as by their high resolution, particularly their ability to convey spatial cues. And Grand Cru has created an attractive, distinctive, uniquely finished design -- things that don’t hurt in setting this speaker apart from its competition. The Essentiel’s drawbacks are comparatively small"
The original MSRP on these speakers is $8200 so they are being offered at a real discount. I am the original owner of this demo pair. I believe in fact that they are the same speakers reviewed in Sound Stage, based on the identical serial number