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Finally after much pestering & goading by the recent owner of these speakers, read that as FM Sean Dsilva, am putting this review across to satisfy his curiosity & that of others who would want to know how good these speakers are, since finding New (Imported - China made but of course
) Floor Standing speakers being sold for 8k is pretty much unheard of these days.
Ever since Sean got these speakers home, he has been after me to come over & listen to them. He probably wanted me to validate his decision of buying these for 8K & that too he did so after he auditioned them twice & kept pestering me to decide for himself
Last Saturday, I finally found time to go over to his place & give them a listen.
Besides the Speakers foll was his set-up :
Source - Pioneer DV300 DVDP
AMP - Norge 2060 Integrated with Remote
CABLES & IC'S - Generic
Straight off I found a couple of issues:-
Sean had placed his speakers poles apart, literally!!! This said with respect to his listening seat, as 1 got the impression of listening only to a single speaker, the other not only not visible, partly due to being so far away & also due to the fact that his computer work station was blocking it completely.
1st thing I requested Sean to do is to bring the lonely & neglected LH speaker towards prominence by shifting it closer to his seating area & away from any furniture blocking it. Hmm, instantly we were in the land of 2 Channel Stereo:clapping: Couple of tabla heavy tracks were being played post change of position of the 'neglected' speaker & now I found another issue, that being the bass boom, due to the fact that the Bass Port is at the rear side & his speakers were almost kissing the back walls. Since he has no space to bring them forward atleast a foot away from the walls, I requested Sean to see if he has any pieces of foam lying in his house. Luckily he had a sheet of 1&1/2 Inch Foam which I quickly cut as required & stuffed them into the ports. Thankfully the boom was now gone & I could enjoy the music now.
Played a lot of tracks, starting from Indian, Bolly & Classical - then headed towards main stream english pop/rock/hard rock & assorted metal. In between Sean played a couple of tracks of his kind of music (read as '80s R&B) This went on for a good 3 hours & by which time I got more than sufficient idea of how the Dick Smith's on the whole are.
Couple of things to note:
The Speakers must have been 'burned - in' for about 15 odd hours as per Sean Estimate, prior to my listening session.
Volume of the Norge amp was between 11 & 12 O'clock during entire session.
Music was sufficiently loud atleast for me, dunno about Sean
His poor dad was a 'prisoner' in his room & am sure must have been wondering what in the name of Jesus was being played in his hall
Sean was watching his speaker drivers vibrate & at times put himself in the firing zone(read as stuck near either of the speakers)
Now for the business part of this review:
What I liked:
Composed sound with no driver distortion associated with cheap speakers.
Nice Lows post port stuffing with foam, decent Mids
Price:licklips:
Huge Cabs & nice appearance
What I did not like:
Highs little iffy.
Tweeters sounded like they were the weakest part of the speaker, may be they need more burn-in.
Pretty Light Weight, could lift the speaker with ease.
Gaudy colour of the Mid Range Driver (Klipschesque but bad)
Yes, you cannot expect to get lot of details especially with tracks having lot of complex instruments placements & such, but then what can you expect from speakers costing 8k???
Overall, I found that the speakers would be nice for people liking certain genre's of music such as Pop, Rock, R&B, Jazz, Soul, Rap etc.
Bottom line, the speakers are a nice find when one keeps the price in mind I need to listen to these again after they've being played for more than 100 + hours, especially since I found the tweeters sounding pretty rough.
There you have it Sean, Hope you are happy now
) Floor Standing speakers being sold for 8k is pretty much unheard of these days.Ever since Sean got these speakers home, he has been after me to come over & listen to them. He probably wanted me to validate his decision of buying these for 8K & that too he did so after he auditioned them twice & kept pestering me to decide for himself
Last Saturday, I finally found time to go over to his place & give them a listen.
Besides the Speakers foll was his set-up :
Source - Pioneer DV300 DVDP
AMP - Norge 2060 Integrated with Remote
CABLES & IC'S - Generic
Straight off I found a couple of issues:-
Sean had placed his speakers poles apart, literally!!! This said with respect to his listening seat, as 1 got the impression of listening only to a single speaker, the other not only not visible, partly due to being so far away & also due to the fact that his computer work station was blocking it completely.
1st thing I requested Sean to do is to bring the lonely & neglected LH speaker
towards prominence by shifting it closer to his seating area & away from any furniture blocking it. Hmm, instantly we were in the land of 2 Channel Stereo:clapping: Couple of tabla heavy tracks were being played post change of position of the 'neglected' speaker & now I found another issue, that being the bass boom, due to the fact that the Bass Port is at the rear side & his speakers were almost kissing the back walls. Since he has no space to bring them forward atleast a foot away from the walls, I requested Sean to see if he has any pieces of foam lying in his house. Luckily he had a sheet of 1&1/2 Inch Foam which I quickly cut as required & stuffed them into the ports. Thankfully the boom was now gone & I could enjoy the music now.Played a lot of tracks, starting from Indian, Bolly & Classical - then headed towards main stream english pop/rock/hard rock & assorted metal. In between Sean played a couple of tracks of his kind of music (read as '80s R&B) This went on for a good 3 hours & by which time I got more than sufficient idea of how the Dick Smith's on the whole are.
Couple of things to note:
The Speakers must have been 'burned - in' for about 15 odd hours as per Sean Estimate, prior to my listening session.
Volume of the Norge amp was between 11 & 12 O'clock during entire session.
Music was sufficiently loud atleast for me, dunno about Sean
His poor dad was a 'prisoner' in his room & am sure must have been wondering what in the name of Jesus was being played in his hall
Sean was watching his speaker drivers vibrate & at times put himself in the firing zone(read as stuck near either of the speakers
)Now for the business part of this review:
What I liked:
Composed sound with no driver distortion associated with cheap speakers.
Nice Lows post port stuffing with foam, decent Mids
Price:licklips:
Huge Cabs & nice appearance
What I did not like:
Highs little iffy.
Tweeters sounded like they were the weakest part of the speaker, may be they need more burn-in.
Pretty Light Weight, could lift the speaker with ease.
Gaudy colour of the Mid Range Driver (Klipschesque but bad
)Yes, you cannot expect to get lot of details especially with tracks having lot of complex instruments placements & such, but then what can you expect from speakers costing 8k???
Overall, I found that the speakers would be nice for people liking certain genre's of music such as Pop, Rock, R&B, Jazz, Soul, Rap etc.
Bottom line, the speakers are a nice find when one keeps the price in mind
I need to listen to these again after they've being played for more than 100 + hours, especially since I found the tweeters sounding pretty rough.There you have it Sean, Hope you are happy now
