You can just take all of that and multiply it by 10. They are one of the few speakers that are dynamic enough for orchestral or big band music and refined enough for a small jazz quartet or a string trio.? Most important these speakers let you emotionally into the pace and rhythm of the music. The top end is just beautiful like real music is. The bass is quick and dynamic and so deep it will blow your mind from such mundane looking speakers. Vocals and instruments are just there with all there dynamics and with unbelievable tonal accurateness. They have the clearest, quickest, and most beautiful midrange I have ever heard. After breaking in and with my Kern modified Sony 777 SACD or with one of Audio Notes new transformer coupled dacs or with records they sound more like my Quad 57s than any other speaker I have ever owned at any price. If positioned correctly and mounted right they load a room better than a Rel subwoofer. How do they sound? In reviewing the $3000 AN-E Ls I said they sounded ?More like live music than any speaker I have ever heard. It stirs my emotions and it is easy on the ears. Oh but that sound that comes out of a well broken in well set up pair of these is beyond my words. WARNING: THEY SOUND BAD RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX, better after 100 hours, good after 200 and they keep getting better for weeks. They aren?t especially heavy, and the drivers look quite ordinary. They are so traditional, a two way ported box. They look mundane, even in the beautiful finishes Peter offers. Nothing prepares you for the sound of these speakers. Sony 777es SACD player modified by Kern with Super clock II and power supply, blackgate caps and vashay resistors.Īll cable and power cords Audience AU 24 and one of JC Audio?s ISO on each piece of equipment. WAVAC MD 300B SET Amp 10 Watts per channel, transformer coupled, WE tubes use in both amps. If you have been listening to large panels or horns then you are already use to this and know it is more lifelike then the small precise pinpoint imaging that I use to love so much before I was set free to let the music with all it?s emotions come into my home almost like it does in person.Īudio Note Conqueror SET Amp 8 Watts per channel or the Now I can?t imagine why anyone would want speakers sticking out there like that when it?s not necessary for a lifelike soundstage. The truth is the music is in the same place in my room the speakers just moved. If you like me have been listening to speakers several feet out into the room at first this is a hard change but it?s psychological. They sound great out in the room, (and even the rep uses then that way) but to get the full glory from them they need to be in the corners. As Peter recommends the speakers were place in the corners about 3 inches from the rear wall. The stand elevated the speaker to the point where my ears were parallel to the tweeter. Between the speaker and the stand you place blue tack, it works amazingly well. The speakers were set on two 10-inch high, lead and sand filled steel speaker stands that AN supplies for an additional $300. My pair has the optional piano black finish. They are 94.5dB efficient with Audio Note AN-SPx silver speaker cable, Audio Note solid silver wired inductors with Black Gate capacitors and Audio Note copper foil adjusters in an all round veneered cabinet with MDF wrap and Russian birch plywood front and back. The AN-E SEs are a 2-way rear ported enclosure with 1" tweeter and a 8" bass driver. You?ve got to move up above the bottom of the line, I settled on the pair of AN-E SEs that cost $8400 and I?m happier then I have been in 30 years of audio. The speakers I had settle on were the Gershman Avant Gaurds and then it happened I heard a pair of the Audio Note Speakers. Then I tried several model of Klipsch, they had the magic I missed but they weren?t coherent with the bass drivers and could be harsh at times. I really liked the CLSs but never could convince myself to buy a pair. They weren?t quads, but my biggest disappointment was that neither were the 63s my cup of tea. I tried Spenders, Rogers, Clestions, Spicas, and some others that I don?t remember. Then I got married and we moved and there was no place for the monoliths so I begin down the line of mini monitors. I purchased a second pair and stacked them. So for a few years I tried to fine something better that would also give me volume and bass. Thirty-one years of trying to fine a satisfying speaker The first speakers I owned were stacked Advents then I heard a pair of quad 57s and I had to have them.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |