27-May-2015, 18:00
I have written this elsewhere but at the risk of boring people I have in front of me in my listening room at the moment, a pair of Goldmund Epilog 1&2, the best speakers I have heard, a pair of Tune Audio Anima horns and a pair of Silver Phantoms.
The Phantoms are close to the Goldmunds but have a quite different presentation to the horns.
The Goldmunds are better, to my ears but are over 30x times as expensive.
I have KEF LS50s but haven't done a direct comparison, the immediate impression is that the Phantoms are in a different league. For me, music is about the whole performance,not just mid. Maybe somebody who mainly listened to the sort of easy listening female vocalists so popular at shows would hear something I don't notice.
OK they don't have beryllium or diamond tweeters but the mid is superb IMO. They have the superb clarity that first attracted me to the Devialet D-Premier in the first place.
It does depend on taste though. Some listeners "clear" is another's "bright".
Listeners who prefer the sound of the extra overtones added by the SET amps and their like (the OP mentioned this sort of thing) may well find them not to their taste.
The Phantoms are close to the Goldmunds but have a quite different presentation to the horns.
The Goldmunds are better, to my ears but are over 30x times as expensive.
I have KEF LS50s but haven't done a direct comparison, the immediate impression is that the Phantoms are in a different league. For me, music is about the whole performance,not just mid. Maybe somebody who mainly listened to the sort of easy listening female vocalists so popular at shows would hear something I don't notice.
OK they don't have beryllium or diamond tweeters but the mid is superb IMO. They have the superb clarity that first attracted me to the Devialet D-Premier in the first place.
It does depend on taste though. Some listeners "clear" is another's "bright".
Listeners who prefer the sound of the extra overtones added by the SET amps and their like (the OP mentioned this sort of thing) may well find them not to their taste.
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
Oxfordshire
