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Price Paid:
$170.00
from Stereo Trading Outle Summary:
Wharfedale Crystal 40's are a 37" tall narrow-footprint tower with a textile dome tweeter, a 6.5 in. midrange and a 6.5 in. woofer. Designed in England and manufactured in China these speakers are a good example of current technology offering smooth, balanced sonics and quality construction. I've placed them about 8 feet apart and about 2 feet from the rear wall toed in to face the listening position in my medium sized living room and I've listened to all different types of music through them and they are faithful to the source and still can play fairly loud for rock. The Crystal 40's are equally well suited though to the demands of Jazz and Classical with plenty of ambience and treble air. Bass is good too when run full-range but I like to listen to these with the fronts set to 'small' on the receiver and the subwoofer set to 'on' which to me makes for cleaner output. Imaging is decent as with good instrument and vocal placement. I'm using a modest $120 5.1 Sherwood RD-6108 receiver to drive them and though they are rated 86 db. sensitivity and 6 ohms nominal imp. they seem very easy to drive. If you don't mind tower speakers in your setup and don't want to pay a lot I would say these are a good bet over similarly priced bookshelves. If you buy the matching Crystal center though, be forewarned that the center's sound will 'warm up' the sound a bit which may or may not be to everyone's liking. I bought these with the winter maple vinyl finish (nice). Strengths:
Smooth, balanced, and refined sound for the price
Decent looks Weaknesses:
None that I've noticed.
Matching Crystal Center a little warmer sounding than the Towers Similar Products Used:
PSB Stratus Mini Speakers
Wharfedale Sapphire 87
'78 Klipsch Heresy
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