Wow!! Maybe Revolution Acoustics would be a better name!
Conventional wisdom holds that you should spend ~40% of your budget on speakers to have a "balanced" system. But with these little guys you can spend 10, or even 20, times the speaker cost on upstream components and these speakers would still not be outclassed. I have heard them as demonstrated at the shows (Playback Designs DAC + darTZeel amps) and the sound is absolutely luscious. That $2.5k speakers can be perfectly paired with ~$40k in electronics is just completely amazing. This is revolutionary!
The bass extension is unbelievable for something so small - absolutely no need for a passive crossover & subwoofer (in small-medium rooms). Even on the lowest notes of an upright bass, the pitch is well defined: no one-note boomy bass here!
Female vocals in the midrange are eerily real - I never thought I'd be in the same room as Joni Mitchell. Do note that these speakers sound a bit bright when new, so don't pass judgement too soon with regard to the high end / tonal balance.
There seems to be a lot of noise about a possible price increase. If the price doubled to $5k, the same as the B&W 805's, the microOnes would still be a huge bargain.
Most highly recommended!
Conventional wisdom holds that you should spend ~40% of your budget on speakers to have a "balanced" system. But with these little guys you can spend 10, or even 20, times the speaker cost on upstream components and these speakers would still not be outclassed. I have heard them as demonstrated at the shows (Playback Designs DAC + darTZeel amps) and the sound is absolutely luscious. That $2.5k speakers can be perfectly paired with ~$40k in electronics is just completely amazing. This is revolutionary!
The bass extension is unbelievable for something so small - absolutely no need for a passive crossover & subwoofer (in small-medium rooms). Even on the lowest notes of an upright bass, the pitch is well defined: no one-note boomy bass here!
Female vocals in the midrange are eerily real - I never thought I'd be in the same room as Joni Mitchell. Do note that these speakers sound a bit bright when new, so don't pass judgement too soon with regard to the high end / tonal balance.
There seems to be a lot of noise about a possible price increase. If the price doubled to $5k, the same as the B&W 805's, the microOnes would still be a huge bargain.
Most highly recommended!