Price Paid:  $1000.00 from Tweeter

Summary:
One word -- Magnificent -- is all that is really needed to describe these hand made Italian beauties. I recently bought these along with the SF center and SF rears. I also matched a REL Q201E sub. They are powered and controlled by a Denon AVR-4802. I haven't even had time to play with positioning or xover settings, but if they can get any better... I can listen to an audiency clap, and it doesn't sound like nails hitting a tin roof. Soundstage, directionality, and overall frequency response are wonderful. These have a smooth and even output all the way from 80hz to 20khz, As I said before I haven't had time to adjust the crossover. Also the sub (REL Q201E) matches these speakers wonderfully. All in all it makes everything sound and feel real, and that is my objective.

Strengths:
Smooth, Pretty, Very Well built, Even frequency response

Weaknesses:
Um...I don't know the answer to this question yet.

Similar Products Used:
Vienas, Boston Acoustics, Bose-(yuck), Polk Audio

Price Paid:  $0.00

Summary:
I audition these speakers and think they are wonderful.The highs do not fatigue but seem to convey all the information.Midrange is also very good with these monitors.They throw a huge soundstage and dissapear with the music.The bass is a little thumpy but to be expected from a small monitor.The drivers blend seemlessly with no unnatural sounds.I was very impressed by these speakers perfomance and beauty.No.. I won't be ditching my Soliloquys for them but they sound very similiar.And make me happy with my purchase. A must audition for someone looking for a monitor ..the only speakers I have heard so far to consider besides my own!

Strengths:
Silky Highs,Great midrange,Seem to be fairly efficient

Weaknesses:
A little pricey but at a good discount hard to beat!

Similar Products Used:
Soliloquy,Meadowlark,Vienna Acoustics,Thiel,Paradigm and a few others

Price Paid:  $1100.00 from dealer

Summary:
This is my second review of this little performer,2 years later. I use the croft tube amp with them now,and i can give a good impression yet with tube/faber sound. To begin with ,this combination sounds even better than with solid state gear. The sound is absolutely natural,and the instruments and voices are reallife. Invalvement is the keyword here,expression and soundstage are unbeliefable. Copper instruments really shine and have power,without sounding harsh or sharp. Hall dimensions can really be heard in good recordings, translated in your room. The croft is fore a tube amp very fast and sounds more powwerfull then you would expect. Voices are lovely sweet but transparent,even in real hight reflected. And piano...o yeah,really ringing as in reality,you can truly hear the hole thing. Sometime I switch back to the Accuphase amp,but no way it comes near. It looks like dead sound,but has in the extreme more power naturaly. But when you are spoiled with easyness and flow of the croft,there is no way back in my situation. To all the Tino lovers,who never heard this babys with good tube gear(and can afford it,possibly there is no turning back!)I can recommend you to try this when you have the opportunuty,I think you will be hooked. musical greetings

Strengths:
The tinos give a great impression of the gear you combine them with,in other words they grow allong

Weaknesses:
for the price actually non.

Similar Products Used:
a whole lot off others,from cheap till absurd prices

Price Paid:  $1000.00 from Filtronique

Summary:
First class balanced speaker...Best midrange ! A long term investment ! Used with SimAudio Celeste PW5000 integrated amp, YBA Integre CD player, MusicHall MMF-5 turnable... Simply magic !

Strengths:
Mids...

Weaknesses:
Would be even better with more volume...

Price Paid:  $1033.00 from Professional Audio C

Summary:
I have gravitated toward bookshelf speakers on stands. I have learned through somewhat expensive trial and error that the quality of the upstream components, interconnects, cables etc. make a considerable difference. Presently, while not high end, I have an Arcam AVR200, which is a nice fit for my system providing enough flexibility and musicality. A Cambridge Audio DVD300 serves as my digital source for both CD''''s and DVD playback. It is connected to the Arcam via a Synergistic Research Digital Corridor No.2 connector. I just use the Arcam''''s DAC processors. Speaker cable is Linn K20. I have a Monitor Audio ASW110 Sub for the lowest frequencies. The Cocertinos are set to large as it would be shame to cut them off unnaturally. The MA sub is set to 40 Hz as its starting point and has had its gain pulled down to about 40% to blend w/ the Concertinos. (I wish I could hear a difference in the phase control setting, but since I can''''t I leave it at 0.) I also listen to the music channels on Direct TV, usually #840. Inexpensive interconnects, Copperheads by Audioquest carry the signal from my satellite receiver. I provided the above so that the reader had a truer picture of the total system within which these speakers are being reviewed. The Concertinos are a transparent window into the music. They provide, within certain limits, the ability to look down that street provided by the artist to a degree that astounds me at times. My nine year old daughter usually rolls her eyes at my audio stuff but she actually sits and listens to jazz on the funny looking leather covered speakers. There is no higher complement.

Strengths:
Smooth sound, beautiful center image (I still have to check that the center speaker is off in stereo mode), a midrange that can only be described as excellent, layering and soundstage are very coherent, upper bass is not a problem, extended bass handled by a sub noted for its ability to integrate rather than its all out thump.

Weaknesses:
Very sensitive to room placement, must be well off the walls. Reveals mistakes in the recording process (please keep the entire drumkit in one place etc.)

Similar Products Used:
NHT Super Zero''''s, Paradigm MiniMonitor V2''''s