I have had these for 24 hours now. Fronts and center.
They have already(supposedly) been ran in and both are ex demo so a few hundred £ cheaper than retail. Fronts are Walnut with center black. As with the Kef LS50 they are connected to a Marantz SR7005 with multi strand copper cable. Not bi wired at the moment.
I have to say i am thoroughly underwhelmed by these. They are brighter than the Kefs for a start with a smaller sound. In fact the Monitor Audio RX1s i had present a larger soundstage with significent more bass. I have played rock, pop, rn b and a few blu rays. They are not exciting with movies, concert dvds in comparison to the much cheaper Monitor Audios. I had the prejudice that metal dome tweeters are more harsh in general than soft dome etc but the Kefs were much smoother with little to no harshness on vocals or horn sections
Overall i feel these speakers are overpriced. They would be o.k for £450 speakers but not £850(usually 1095). I did want to demo the Spendor SA1s but Audio T recently sold the last ex demo pair and no longer have them.
They have already(supposedly) been ran in and both are ex demo so a few hundred £ cheaper than retail. Fronts are Walnut with center black. As with the Kef LS50 they are connected to a Marantz SR7005 with multi strand copper cable. Not bi wired at the moment.
I have to say i am thoroughly underwhelmed by these. They are brighter than the Kefs for a start with a smaller sound. In fact the Monitor Audio RX1s i had present a larger soundstage with significent more bass. I have played rock, pop, rn b and a few blu rays. They are not exciting with movies, concert dvds in comparison to the much cheaper Monitor Audios. I had the prejudice that metal dome tweeters are more harsh in general than soft dome etc but the Kefs were much smoother with little to no harshness on vocals or horn sections
Overall i feel these speakers are overpriced. They would be o.k for £450 speakers but not £850(usually 1095). I did want to demo the Spendor SA1s but Audio T recently sold the last ex demo pair and no longer have them.