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Review 5 of 13
Price Paid:
$1500.00
from Audiowaves Summary:
These are the 25th ann. model, so price is high, and finish is gloss walnut, but that is not the real story. These are the most musical speakers in my experience, and have owned many of the best .....B&W, Thiel, Maggies, older Celestions, Apogees and many others. Prices of prev. speakers ran to 6000. Having said that, they are not everyman's speaker, but they happen to suit my tastes perfectly. They have delicate detail at low volume that lets you hear exactly what the music is saying. Lovely vocals, and true inst. sounds also. Not the sort of speaker where you say....WOW those are great speakers, they are not impressive in that way, they don't knock your socks off. They would be more likely to make you remark...
." what a beautiful sax or vocal". They are true to the music and the subtle details that escape most speakers. Not at their best playing loud, and would not be the choice for hard rock. But feed them a well recorded string quartet, or classical guitar or jazz group and they are wonderful. Have many 33 rpm records going back decades, which I have owned for decades too. Heard them on multitudes of speakers, and for the most part these Triangles are able to extract the music and make even older mono recordings enjoyable....I keep hearing things I never knew were on the records. Do full justice to modern well recorded CDs too. As to prev. comments re the bass....what I hear is a bass that does nothing wrong, but it is somewhat lightweight, in fact the speaker itself is voiced in that direction, they are not about weight and impact, but they ARE amazingly quick and agile. They need exellent quality amp, but not high power. Using the Creek 5350SE amp, and it's 85 w/ch is plenty in my small room. Added a small Velodyne sub to fill the low bass. I am just so pleased with them! Strengths:
Smoothness, delicate, detail, speed. Ability to play quietly, yet hear the music well. Above all, they are easy to listen to. Find I often load a CD to hear one cut, and end up listening to most or all of the CD....tough to turn off that power switch. Weaknesses:
Lack low bass (altho any speaker this size does). Best in a room that is not large, they are about quality, not quantity. Prob. best for smaller groups rather than full symph. orch. Similar Products Used:
Prob. the speaker most like them in size and general quality has been the B&W Matrix 805, which I used in this same room, and with the same Velodyne sub. The 805 is an excellent and accurate system, but very diff. than the Triangle.
With the B&W I could never get the details or sense of the music until I cranked them a bit. Not to say they needed to be loud, but it was as if the music could not escape the box until the volume filled the room. With the Triangles the music just oozes from the box, and to me that is important. The B&Ws were excellent with full classical orch...good impact and weight (with the sub), these Cometes are pleasing with full orch, but even with the sub there is not that same feeling of weight.... personally I can live with that. Yesterday I played a CD I've had for years by Boccherini. Classical recording of Cello Conc. A lighter weight kind of music written in about 1800 (compared to say Beethoven). I was entranced. Was as if I never really heard what the music was all about before. Have had the same feeling with some vocal/acoustic inst....with the Triangles I finally understand.
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