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Review 2 of 3
Price Paid:
$2500.00
from Direct from Manufact Summary:
As my first pair of real speakers, I was at first ambivalent about purchasing these sight-unseen and sound-unheard. Upon break-in, all such fears were easily thrown out the windows.
My listening room is relatively small, and is open on the left of my left speaker, which usually throws my soundstaging and imaging off, but as I am used to it, and have balanced that out with the processor, using various high-quality setup CDs, I have rendered that effect out as much as possible.
The immediate thought was, WOW, thats a ton of bass. Having risen from bottom-of-the-line Entras to these beauties, in Danish Maple, I was expecting a prety big increase in quality (I used a Harman Kardon reciever, the 430, as the processor prior to my purchase of the ROtel equipment,) I was not expecting what I got.
I find these speakers to be right spectacular for the money. I get a frequency range, in my room, of about 22 or 23hz on up. Pretty decent. You jsut need a good SS amp to push the big 10s in them.
Soundstaging is very good, not incredibly deep but wide and lush. Imaging, a characteristic i normally ascribe to equipment and such, is pinpoint and excellent, on good recordings. SOme rock CDs, like A Perfect Circle's fantastic "Thirteenth Step," do exhibit a good deal of cymbal splash from side to side.
The new SACD of Harnancourt's Mozart Requiem, is simply amazing. Huge sense of space, even from 2-ch playback. Immersive and believeable soundstaging and imaging. Fantastic reproduction of voice and strings, although they do tend to be a bit dark and heavy, most noticable with male voices, such as Cantus' Deep RIver, one of my references.
A fantastic speaker. Made even better with great associated equipment and cable selection.
I would give these my absolute highest reccomendation, and would compare them with comparably priced models from B&W. Strengths:
Great range
Wide soundstage
Pinpoint imaging
Stunning looks, very ladyfriend-friendly! Weaknesses:
Slight emphasis on low range
Need careful cable selection (I took three different sets before I found the right ones!) Similar Products Used:
B&W 600 S3 series
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