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In Reply to: Bel Canto EVO 200 Speaker Recommendation posted by Lynn on July 25, 2002 at 21:52:47:
if you're interested in the lower eff two way style of speaker, check out the floorstanders in the proac response line.no offense to the poster below, but the evo and fidelio do not work properly together....horrified with the results really - unbalanced, poor integration of drivers, washed out midrange...just not impressed. originally i thought it was the baby krell integrated...had them replace it with a full suite of BC gear and the results barely changed. so it goes.
if anything, try something from focal as well. you'll find out how great the high end of your camelot really is...
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and makes a quite a difference when you bridge it.altho, i concur Fidelio isn't the fastest
speakers around...
Hi Chiggy, I'm the poster below; BTW, I'm not offended at all for the comment, and neither I would like you to be offended by mine.
I really don't get the results that you had. You had bad results with the Krell and the EVO on the Fidelios? Maybe something bad had happened to the Fidelios before or maybe it’s the source or preamp that doesn't match with the rest? Anyway, I don't question your earring (or mine) but there was evidently something wrong in the system that you have listened. You can check my system in the Inmate systems if you want to check what was different, but for sure, fortunately, in my system, it’s clear and clean that the EVO and Fidelio can be matched successfully together. I recall someone here who was pointing at the EVO as being sluggish, slow and muddy. He finally found that it was his source that wasn’t a good match with the EVO; he bought the EVO and replaced its source. Sometime we’re just not pointing in the right direction when it comes to bad matches; it’s obviously easier to tell when we found a good match!
[I'm not offended at all for the comment]thats always good to hear...inmates are touchy i think...
[I really don't get the results that you had. You had bad results with the Krell and the EVO on the Fidelios?]
i'm glad your results differ from mine as mine were none to pleasant. i think the speakers were functioning according to manuf. specs...manager was helping me out. results were pretty much the same with both amps. though BC gear did more things right than krell in that room and situation.
[there was evidently something wrong in the system that you have listened.]
don't think so...i just didn't agree with the results. :-)
[Sometime we’re just not pointing in the right direction when it comes to bad matches; it’s obviously easier to tell when we found a good match! ]
i did think it was the source...we tried several cd players and none were really that successful.
Chiggy,
I understand that you can disagree with the results because of preferences. But if you found the sound to be "horrible" (unbalanced, poor integration of drivers, washed out midrange) that tells me that there was obviously something wrong. The results are simply too different. An other inmate here (celery) has build a system with the Fidelio and the EVo, he also concludes that it makes an outstanding match (you can check his system in the Inmate Systems). Kuma here says that the EVo seems to be extremely sensitive with cabling, maybe that can be an explanation? Insufficient break-in period can leads to the results you had. I had wonderful results with Cardas Cross speaker cables (but I haven't bought them yet :( ).Anyway, it’s up to you to give them another chance or not.
Lynn, if you read this post, you have a demonstration that system matching is always *very* important! But if you can, give them a try!
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