24-Nov-2014, 19:02
Hello,
Had the Graham LS5/9 at home today!
After hearing them at a few occasions with different gear and really falling in love with them, today was a total disappointment!
It did not work at all, they where gray in the midtone, muddled, shut in etc. Bass was the only part that was good, with good depth and solidity (better than my PL100). First time I heard them with the Devialet so I guess it wasn't a match in heaven in my system.
We moved them around, played with settings on the Dev etc but the 'signature' persisted.
On complex material everything collapsed and by the time my wife came back home we called it the day after she developed a headache after 1 minute with the comment: -It sounds like a mess!
To say something more positive is that instruments and voices sounded more real (among the best I heard) in the few recordings that was well recorded even if the 'grayness' still was there.
I still think that these loudspeakers are fantastic but not in my system obviously. Seldom I experienced such mismatch, highly disappointed.
My dealer was as surprised as me so the hunt goes on for other speakers. Despite our almost 30 m2 big room my dealer suggested to stick with stand mount loudspeakers.
He has a pair of Raidho X1 coming in soon which I for sure will try at home, with SAM of course. If that works out I may give the Raidho D1 a go in the system. He also thought that the Diablo Utopia 3 would work good but I never heard it with Devialet.
New suggestions for speakers from you forum members?
/Mike
Had the Graham LS5/9 at home today!
After hearing them at a few occasions with different gear and really falling in love with them, today was a total disappointment!
It did not work at all, they where gray in the midtone, muddled, shut in etc. Bass was the only part that was good, with good depth and solidity (better than my PL100). First time I heard them with the Devialet so I guess it wasn't a match in heaven in my system.
We moved them around, played with settings on the Dev etc but the 'signature' persisted.
On complex material everything collapsed and by the time my wife came back home we called it the day after she developed a headache after 1 minute with the comment: -It sounds like a mess!
To say something more positive is that instruments and voices sounded more real (among the best I heard) in the few recordings that was well recorded even if the 'grayness' still was there.
I still think that these loudspeakers are fantastic but not in my system obviously. Seldom I experienced such mismatch, highly disappointed.
My dealer was as surprised as me so the hunt goes on for other speakers. Despite our almost 30 m2 big room my dealer suggested to stick with stand mount loudspeakers.
He has a pair of Raidho X1 coming in soon which I for sure will try at home, with SAM of course. If that works out I may give the Raidho D1 a go in the system. He also thought that the Diablo Utopia 3 would work good but I never heard it with Devialet.
New suggestions for speakers from you forum members?
/Mike
Ex D400 Now Aavik U-300/Feickert Woodpecker2-Kuzma 4P-Kondo silver-Benz LPS-Teddy Pardo PSU/Naim Unitiserve-Teddy Pardo PSU/SF Guarneri Homage/Whole system decoupled by Ansuz DTC/Cables from Ansuz, DYI and other commercial/Dedicated mains and spur-Lampizator SILK
