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Model: | IL-10 |
Category: | Speakers |
Suggested Retail Price: | $420 |
Description: | Two way ported bookshelf speaker |
Manufacturer URL: | Infinity Systems |
Review by ka7niq (A) on May 24, 2003 at 06:30:22 IP Address: 4.46.217.252 | Add Your Review for the IL-10 |
I brought a demo pair of these home from Circuit City that were well broken in, but I played em night and day, face to face, out of phase for a week just to be sure.
These dont do anything really wrong, but neither do they do anything right either.
These are a " me too " speaker in my opinion.
The IL 10 is a 6.5 inch CMMD driver, crossing over at 2.5 k to a CMMD tweeter.
The cabinet seems to be pretty dead.
I tried these on many diffrent stands, with many different electronice, both Tube and solid state.
They prefer solid state.
I would not reccommend Tubes with these, the balance is so laid back that I feel Tubes would only compound this.The best way I can describe these is Bland.
Kind of like cafeteria food !
Its edible, but not memorable.
No matter what, in a room famous with Tampa Audiophiles for its imaging, I couldnt get them to image very well.
Left to right wasnt horrible, but depth was poor, even well out from the wall.
Voice reproduction on speech was ho hum.
The tweeter is very smooth and without peaks, but doesnt appear to have much air to it.
They are a fairly easy load for the many amps I tried on them, and they do look nice.
Just for kicks, I went back to Circuit City and also paid for and took home then competing Polk RT 35i speakers.
I much preferred the Polks, they have much punchier bass, image better, and had me tappin my toes, something the IL 60 never did.
So, in short, the IL 60 is just another me too speaker.
They do use CMMD drivers.
Someone once asked Floyd Toole, head designer of Infinity, "What does CMMD stand for " ??
Floyd responded " CMMD stands for costs me miniscule dollars, EH ?
Nuff Said
I kept them for 60 days, and back they went to Circuit City , and so did the Polks.
The Polks went with semi fond memories, I didnt shed tear one for these.
Not Reccommended, you can do a lot better.
Product Weakness: | Yuk, read the review |
Product Strengths: | You can get em cheap ?? |
Associated Equipment for this Review: | |
Amplifier: | Audire Parlando, Krell ksa200b, others |
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | Klyne, Audire |
Sources (CDP/Turntable): | Oracle, Koetsu, Itok, Krell |
Speakers: | Klipsch CF 4 version 1 and CF 3, version 2 |
Cables/Interconnects: | Audioquest, Nordost |
Music Used (Genre/Selections): | Classical, Chamber, Jazz, Celine |
Room Size (LxWxH): | 18 x 12 x 8 |
Room Comments/Treatments: | Live end Dead end |
Time Period/Length of Audition: | 60 days |
Other (Power Conditioner etc.): | Homebrew, Ham Radio Style |
Type of Audition/Review: | Product Owner |
Follow Ups:
Did Floyd Toole burn down your house and kill your family?
What kind of response is that ?
I dont hate Floyd Toole, I have never met the man.
I just call it as I hear it.
The CMMD drivers appear cheap, just remove one from the cabinet, flimsy frame and all.
Your previous posts have indicated a certain lack of, uh, respect for Mr. Toole. Perhaps similar to the respect given Dr. Bose by most posters here.
Yeah, you are right, I dont have a lot of respect for him.
The whole NRC stuff is a sham, what did they " discover ' anyway ?
Its just rehashed bullshit with some new twists thrown in.
When you have been at the audio hobby for over 30 years as I have, its hard to bull shit me.
Some of you newer fellows may take a knee for Floyd, but he is just another pseudo guru as far as I am concerned.
Not that thats bad mind you, but he isnt God, and I dont happen to agree with some of his methodology, thats all.
If you read the hype, and believe it, they would have you believe he reinvented the wheel !
The stuff he supposedly discovered, uniform off axis dispersion, low distortion, flat on axis response, etc is, and has been well known !
Matter of fact, the Electro Voice Interface D's I had from the 70's Bragged about how perfect its Polar Plot was !
To Quote EV " The Interface D has the most uniform horizontal and vertical pattern ever measured in the EV anechoic chamber "
The EV chamber BTW was the largest in North America at that time.
And since EV also made the microphones too, they could hand select calibrated mikes for their measurements.
But Floyd needs and designs for wide dispersion, do you know why ?
So, when he is out ice fishing on the cold canadien tundra, he can simply play the mating sound of whales and have the eskimo's come a running, EH ?
Ha Ha
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