welshboy July 25, 2008 11:10
My first purchase in a few years after a careful audition of the obvious competitors. (Stand Mounts are banned due to their ugliness.) I had a budget of £900 to fund a new system (amp, CD player, speakers)and decided to spend nearly half of it on the speakers.
Here is a blow by blow set of immpresions as I got them home:
Excellent packaging.
Poor set -up instructions
They do take 2-3 days to run in as said in the review.
Sound quality once run in is really amazing, great bass, not overly booming and a nicely presented sound stage. They are not overly sensitive to position either. I've not found anything yet that causes them to lose their composure from rock thru classical to jazz. They present, to my ear, a very natural sound. I know that's subjective but listening to the Corrs I could almost be at their concert again.
They look really good as well but are quite narrow so probably not the best choice if you have young kids in the house.
I do have a slight problem in that they have exposed new levels of depth, or the lack of it in my music collection and I'm starting to question the quality of some of the recordings I have.