Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
product is fantastic!

KEN ABBASZADEH

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
More than 1 year

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $1200.00 from store demo

Summary:
AFTER 3 YEARS OF CONSTANT LISTENING STILL ENJOY IT, I WOULD SAY WHY WOULD ANYONE SPEND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS ON SPEAKER WHEN THEY CAN BUY THIS AWSOME SPEAKERS.LOVE IT , TIGHT BASS, BEAUTIFUL MID RANGE.

Strengths:
GREAT LOOK,SOLID BUILT, AND PERFORMANCE

Weaknesses:
NONE , NONE , NONE

Similar Products Used:
MIAGE, MATIN LOGAN,CASTLE.

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Jorge Perez

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 3 of 5

Used product for
3 Months to 1 year

Price Paid:  $379.00 from Ebay auction

Summary:
After trying them for 5 months, I just can say that's the best bang for the buck made in my whole life! I use them with 2 bridged NAD 214 power amps and a pre NAD 1000 from MONITOR SERIES (together with a CD NAD C540) and the resulting sound is just superb. Controlled bass, laid-backs and dynamics are exceptionals. Considering they cost more than €2.500 and I got them by just paying €379... I think there's nothing more to say ;) Now I'm waiting for the seller to sell the A3's he still owns.

Strengths:
Laid-backs, controlled bass, finished, laser interferometry, faraday rings... that means outclass technology.

Weaknesses:
A little expensive if it were bought brand-new ;)

Similar Products Used:
Celestion MKII range, ProAcs, Dynaudios (contour series and Audience monitors), Spendor, Thiel, Jamor (concert 8 and 11) and few more.

Price Paid:  $2800.00 from Audio Two in Windsor

Summary:
I have had these speakers for almost 2 years now and they are still the best sounding that I have had in my home to date. And I have had a lot of speakers on trial at home in my system. I have them on a solid rosewood stand that perfectly matches the speaker. I had the local cabinet maker contruct them and fill them with sand and then seal them. I have the speakers with very short spikes sitting on the matching stands with good spikes as well. This makes it look like a large speaker. With the stands it brings the tweeter just above the listeners ears. With a Meridian 508-24 cd player and a much modified Copland CSA 14 and Cardas Golden Reference Interconnects and Speaker Cables and these Celestions I would be hard pressed finding better sound.

Weaknesses:
None

Similar Products Used:
Linn,KEF,Silverline,Reference 3a,JM Lab,Mission,Totem Tabu....etc etc etc.

Price Paid:  $1100.00 from Wholesale distributor

Summary:
I auditioned these at a friends house and compared them to a pair of home built speakers of similar MTM design. I was very impressed. Even at the retail cost these are great speakers. As many have noted, they have fantasic base response for a smaller (but heavy at 70# each!) pair of towers that are good looking to boot. These will easily make it past the wife factor. The warm tone of these speakers combined with the solid base response makes them a natural for jazz and rock/popular. Chamber music seemed to get a little muddy in the low mids and perhapse a touch trebely as well. Still, these flaws were minor in magnitude.

Strengths:
Very tight and controlled base. Warm and musical mids. Good seperation of voices and soundstage.

Weaknesses:
Not a speaker for the avid classical music lover.

Similar Products Used:
NHT, Maggies(?not quite the same?), Vifa homebuilt MTMs, Kestrels, B&W, Monitor Audio