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In Reply to: Sonus-faber Amati vs Cremona posted by Take2 on July 23, 2002 at 10:03:24:
Guys, thank you for your comments!So, I had a audition of Amati in my room.
Although it had humongous presence in my room, fortunately, it was not too big for my room practically.
First of all, to make sure that I have reasonably good frequency response, if not perfect, I played sweep tone of TestCD and set speaker position so that all the response from each speaker differ within 3dB.
My first music track was Organ pierce of Exton SACD. It was just gorgeous. Fast passage of higher key, backed by fruity bass, was clear and never be dull which frequently happen in many other speakers.
Next one was Tchaikovsky String Serenade of fineNF SACD and I found sound stage was not so clear as I had experienced in dealer?fs demo room. We tried to widen the distance of the speakers, make the angle tight, and took closer listening position. What worked most was angle. Sonus-faber saying very tight positioning, like axis of speakers cross 1m before listening position, gets best result sometime. It was true for my case. Positioning of instrument got much more clear and accurate which is most important thing for me in listening to music otherwise reproduction is not at all real. I also found listening position make difference. Closer, resolution get sharper, farer, graduations get smoother.
Third CD was Rite of Spring of Stravinsky performed by Gergiev & Kirov orch and again, Amati reproduced percussive orchestral sound in excellent manner. With older recording such as Beethoven Violin concert of Heifetz from complete works, Amati did good job that it never be harsh. Poorness of recording wasn?ft weigh on my mind and I could be absorbed in this great performance.
Bach solo violin partita of Perlman sounded as if Amati was designed for this pierce. Double or triple string harmony sounded without any clumsy and reverberations were oh-so-gorgeous.
After listening some other classical stuff, I turned into another genre. Famous Blue Raincoat of Jennifer Warnes sounded as if I could see the spotlight towards her. The way Amati play accompanying noise make this even better. Get Ready of Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart was soulful & groovy, especially half front pickup position guitar sound of singing Jeff?fs Stratcaster was just amazing.
In my room, I got better result with port fill-up devices coming with Amati remains. Without this, nothing severe though, bass tend to be slightly boomy.
I have heard that Amati works well combined with various amplifiers, not like B&W Nautilus 800-802, which require behemoth to cope with. And it worked brilliantly with my Mos-FET one.
I'm now waiting for final bill that would be 11000GBP.
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