- Aug 10, 2019
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Had a busy day in Manchester today
Demo'd the Pioneer S-DJ08's and Yamaha HS80's at Dawsons with music from my iPad through they're devices (pro interconnects needed -XLr cables I think). Both sounded fantastic; Yamahas really impressed but very VERY neutral which to me gave the top end a little dryness at times. The Pioneers where totally better to me. Both had superb bass depth and punch and really well detailed midrange
Then went from there to Superfi to demo the Epoz Aktimate Maxis again with music from my iPad but via an Audiolab 8200 CD as the DAC via USB; again superb sounding system and really enjoyed listening to them. Plenty of power and prowess with bags of detail in the midrange and top end. Bass depth and punch really impressed me (in their room it wa a little overbearing at times but their room is narrow with the speakers firing across)
Listened to music from Trentmoller to Metallica to The Commitments soundtrack to Daft Punk and some Frank Sinatra. All sounded superb and this put me into a quandary; whether to sanded close to £700 to get the Pioneers and extra for the necessary cables or to go for the Epoz's.
Went back to Dawsons and had another 15mins with the Pioneers and made my decision...
Went for the Epoz's
Got them home and set up on some Soundstyle Z2 stands (loaded with atabites) until my Partington Dreadnoughts land. Connected to my ATV 2 via a Firestone Spitfire MkII ( very impressed with this) and their own interconnects and a 3m length of QED Revelation speaker cable connecting the speakers.
I know not true active speakers but they sound absolutely fantastic in the living room even straight out of the box; hopefully theyll bed in soon enough and will sound better when on the Partingtons
Demo'd the Pioneer S-DJ08's and Yamaha HS80's at Dawsons with music from my iPad through they're devices (pro interconnects needed -XLr cables I think). Both sounded fantastic; Yamahas really impressed but very VERY neutral which to me gave the top end a little dryness at times. The Pioneers where totally better to me. Both had superb bass depth and punch and really well detailed midrange
Then went from there to Superfi to demo the Epoz Aktimate Maxis again with music from my iPad but via an Audiolab 8200 CD as the DAC via USB; again superb sounding system and really enjoyed listening to them. Plenty of power and prowess with bags of detail in the midrange and top end. Bass depth and punch really impressed me (in their room it wa a little overbearing at times but their room is narrow with the speakers firing across)
Listened to music from Trentmoller to Metallica to The Commitments soundtrack to Daft Punk and some Frank Sinatra. All sounded superb and this put me into a quandary; whether to sanded close to £700 to get the Pioneers and extra for the necessary cables or to go for the Epoz's.
Went back to Dawsons and had another 15mins with the Pioneers and made my decision...
Went for the Epoz's
Got them home and set up on some Soundstyle Z2 stands (loaded with atabites) until my Partington Dreadnoughts land. Connected to my ATV 2 via a Firestone Spitfire MkII ( very impressed with this) and their own interconnects and a 3m length of QED Revelation speaker cable connecting the speakers.
I know not true active speakers but they sound absolutely fantastic in the living room even straight out of the box; hopefully theyll bed in soon enough and will sound better when on the Partingtons