Coherent speakers from Canada


Anybody here own speakers from coherent? Can you tell me about your experience with them in your room?
justanotherhifiguy

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I think charles1dad has Coincident, not Coherent. 

I have a pair of Coherent 10's arriving in a week or so, I'll post back with my impressions.
My room is L-shaped, but the part of the L that my system is on is about 15' wide x 10' deep, with about another 8 x 10' space behind my couch.
Received my Coherent Model 10's.  They do not seem to have any trouble integrating into my room.  I only have them pulled out a foot or so from the rear wall and bass does not seem overpowering or boomy at all.  

I've only played them a couple days, more to come...  
To update, I've had my Model 10's for about 3 weeks now and I'm thrilled with them.  Amazing clarity and detail, with a full, robust tone.  It's like an open window into recordings now, although as Frank mentions above I can play all types of music and it's not fatiguing.  

I still have my Coherent 10's from my earlier post 5 years ago, time flies!  I also have a pair of Volti Razz.  Both are excellent, fairly similar with some slight differences. 

Voltis dig deeper and tighter in the bass than the Coherents, and they can scale up the sound much easier when you crank it.  Volti are also more room friendly, those Coherent 15's on USAM are going to need some space. I tried the Coherent 12's and they were a bit big for my room, I stuck with my 10s.

That said, my Coherents have the most clear and engaging midrange of any speaker I've owned.  Being point source, they do sound more coherent (derp) and organic than the Voltis. 

Both speakers are tunable.  Volti gives you an extra set of resistors which I have not had the need to use.  The Coherent crossover is infinitely tunable.  When I received the 12's they were way too bright, and Frank showed me how to swap out the crossover resistor with a simple screwdriver to get the tweeter balance the way I want it, worked like a charm.  The only catch is you have buy your own resistors.