lust object speakers

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Right now, I'm waiting for my Harbeth Super HL5 to be shipped to me, so I'm pretty much sated. (Still, I want to audition the 40.1 monitors.) But I've begun dreaming about that one day when I can bring in KEF 207/2s.

I recently listened to the 205/2 for a few hours, imho just about perfect as you can get from dynamic speakers.

peter

[egd]

For a long time I lusted for the ATC SCM150SL AT but settled for the SCM100SL AT as my listening space is nowhere near big enough to accommodate the 150s. Both are superb and their WAF is pretty high too.

[haraldo]

Sorry that Meadowlark went out of business....

However, the Meadowlark Kestrel2's performance is unreal, at that actual pricetag. These are exceedingly well sounding speakers....

You may see a picture of my rig at the cover page here....
http://www.affordableaudio.org/aa2007-11.pdf

The big downside with these speakers is that they have to be playes loud to come alive; they're just plain dull at low volumes, but when you crank up the volume :-D

Cheers

-H

[konut]

I'm expecting these in a few weeks, but with a custom wood. SP Technology Timepiece Mini.

[haraldo]

When thinking more closely....

The Vienna Acoustics Mahler!!!

It's been a while since I listened to those speakers. The last time I auditioned them was with the "Electrocompaniet Nemo blocks". Yes, that's the huge bridged mono blocks that's absolutely impossible to drive into clipping.

I played Underworld so loud that I thought I was going to have a heart attack, the midrange from the techno seemed to interfere with my heart rhythm... And it all sounded fantastic with no distortion and just unbelievably musicality... I never ever heard techno this way since that point in time, a moment in life that I will always remember :-))

Then... Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes, and the speakers responded with such a presentation of her gentle voice that I could swear that I could stretch out an arm and touch her....
Just magic!

Geeez, and the speakers look fantastic :-D

-H

[opaqueice]

I'm expecting these in a few weeks, but with a custom wood. SP Technology Timepiece Mini.

Those have a good rep and a fanatical fanbase. Let us know what you think!

[adamslim]

I just got me some Living Voice OBX-R2s, so as far as I can see it's job done on the speaker front for a decade!

http://www.sixmoons.com/audioreviews...ce/avatar.html

Adam

[selfdivider]

When thinking more closely....

The Vienna Acoustics Mahler!!!

It's been a while since I listened to those speakers. The last time I auditioned them was with the "Electrocompaniet Nemo blocks". Yes, that's the huge bridged mono blocks that's absolutely impossible to drive into clipping.

I played Underworld so loud that I thought I was going to have a heart attack, the midrange from the techno seemed to interfere with my heart rhythm... And it all sounded fantastic with no distortion and just unbelievably musicality... I never ever heard techno this way since that point in time, a moment in life that I will always remember :-))

Then... Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes, and the speakers responded with such a presentation of her gentle voice that I could swear that I could stretch out an arm and touch her....
Just magic!

Geeez, and the speakers look fantastic :-D

-H

I read in the new issue of TAS that Vienna Acoustics will have a spanking new Reference Line. I can only imagine what they'd sound like, considering how the Mahler, Beethoven & Mozart sound so good already! Drool....

[haraldo]

I read in the new issue of TAS that Vienna Acoustics will have a spanking new Reference Line. I can only imagine what they'd sound like, considering how the Mahler, Beethoven & Mozart sound so good already! Drool....

Hmmmm interesting, perhaps that will make it possible to obtain Vienna Mahler or Strauss at the second hand market at lover price tags?

-Harald

[Phil Leigh]

hmmm - I find "lover price tags" rather expensive )