Avantgarde's are Great but Bass Integration?


I just back yesterday from an extensive audition of the Avantgarde Uno and Duo horn speakers. In a word, jaw dropping incredible speakers but .......I never felt really comfortable that the bass integration was going to get quite where it needs to be. Too much bass, too little, slight to noticeable bass to mids transition etc. We changed the settings on the subwoofer, moved the massive Duo's around, which actually was not hard given how the speaker is designed, changing setting positions etc. This speaker more than any other I have heard conveys a "you are there", "organic", and "pure oceans of spatial dimension" qualities in the all important, for my musical tastes, midrange and up. These speakers are so good that once we got things very close to being there with the bass I was convinced that anybody considering speakers, no matter, how little or how much you spend really need to hear how a speaker can take you to another world given a good recording.

What has been others experience with this phenomenial speaker especially in the area of bass quality and integration with the rest of the system?
nanderson

Showing 1 response by marakanetz

I listened yesterday Unos and newest SOLOs. The SOLOs are active monitors simply amazed me with excellent bass compared to Unos and tight organized sound with Capitole-2/Placette...
I was actually about to audition UNOs and listened to them more than one hour. Than after the dealer modestly offered me to listen to SOLOs and I said to myself Ge..., I'm already about to go home and almost have no time to enjoy them... Why didn't he offered me to listen to them first??

They need no poweramp, fully adjustable to the room with equalizer, height adjustable and don't need any amp. The built-in amp has a crossover unit for the subwoofer but these babes go down flat at 25Hz and look f..ng stunning... Oh, man!
So anyone who's dissapointed with Unos and Duos can now audition to SOLOs. They will retail soon at $8k/pr which is a bargain for a amp/speaker combo.