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[Marc ♫]

Damon's Full Article: http://www.mobileele...view_under_600/

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If you’ve read my recent review of component speakers under $300 you’ll know that you can get some great sounding sets for bargain prices these days. Now it’s time to step up to the next level in performance, with component sets costing up to $600RRP.

Here we have sets priced between $399 and $599, and while this may seem like quite a disparity, for many companies $399 is considered ‘high-end’, whereas for other companies $599 is considered ‘entry-level’. Given this, the review needed to span these price points to crossover between the upper level of brands like JVC and Vibe and the lower level of the likes of Audison. This certainly makes for some interesting comparisons between sets as you’ll soon find out.

While purists will quite rightly argue that any good component speaker set should be biased towards ‘sound quality’, it is also somewhat true that quality of sound is a subjective thing, and this explains why there’s such a variance in the sound characteristics of each speaker set in this review. While some of these sets achieved what I’d consider to a well balanced and natural delivery, others were accentuated or ‘flavoured’ in distinct ways that I think many buyers may prefer. So, just because I may prefer a specific set doesn’t mean you may not prefer another set’s sound characteristics as they may suit your listening preferences better.

Please read on for the full review: http://www.mobileele...view_under_600/

[Big_Valven]

Not bad. I was interested to hear of the Voce versus Dotech.

Interesting how the JVC set, according to Damon or his editor, were well educated... I would have thought he meant to describe them as 'taut.'

[Gozza]

Great review! The results are so close that it really does show that the only real way to judge what suits you best is by listening to the speakers yourself!

I wonder how the Crescendo Opus 5 would have gone in that line-up I'm guessing they weren't included seeing as now they are discontinued.

[mad89]

Gozza, on 20 April 2011 - 11:10 PM, said:

I wonder how the Crescendo Opus 5 would have gone in that line-up I'm guessing they weren't included seeing as now they are discontinued.

Not entirely correct, but i'll leave it at that for the moment.

Fingers crossed Crescendo Opus 8.6 and Opus 9.6 are included in the next price brackets - any hints Marc and/or Damon?

[Marc ♫]

These two categories (Under $300 and Under $600) were the only two we attempted at this point and had great support as you can see from the brands that submitted product. Feedback we received from other brands is that they were sitting back to see how it all went but I think it went very well.

Unfortunately for Crescendo, they are in between models and a new range so could submit product for the first category, but not the second. We'll look at "high end" 2 Way components sets shortly.

[ardenteagle]

Marc, on 21 April 2011 - 07:54 AM, said:

These two categories (Under $300 and Under $600) were the only two we attempted at this point and had great support as you can see from the brands that submitted product. Feedback we received from other brands is that they were sitting back to see how it all went but I think it went very well.

Unfortunately for Crescendo, they are in between models and a new range so could submit product for the first category, but not the second. We'll look at "high end" 2 Way components sets shortly.

Hopefully some HAT drivers will be included too

Edited by ardenteagle, 21 April 2011 - 10:41 AM.

[perrin_07]

any idea of when crescendo will have a new range?

[Spink!]

+1 on the new Crescendo range.