Review: Green Mountain Audio Europa Monitor


Category: Speakers

They finally arrived and the fear that I just sold a great sounding pair of Legacy Studios for speakers I have never heard, is beginning to fade. I know I still have 200+ hours of brake-in ahead of me to really know...but some things I can tell already. There is a sense of 'more power', and less effort for the speakers to produce more sound. I descibe it like this: let's say you have a Honda Civic that you have been working on making it faster, with the latest electronics and turbo and all the trick stuff..and its really fast. Then Larry the mechanic moves next door and comes over and says "Let's put a Chevy V-8 in that bugger and see what it does". So we cram this V-8 into it, change the suspension etc. so its driveable. Now remember, Larry isn't soffisticated and has grease under his finger nails and the instalation isn't all pretty and color coordinated....but when you turn the key to turn it on you get goose bumps and your heart rate increases...and it now does stuff your pretty little sooped up Honda engine could never do. The Europas aren't pretty and they are very hand made and come in a plain box; but wait till you turn the key! More after 200 hours.

Associated gear
B&K avr202, Denon DVD-2800, Signal Cable cabling.

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Showing 1 response by drubin

C'mon, Jceisner. You must be 200 hours in by now? Maybe not.

By the way, does everyone subscribe to the break-in prescription of putting the speakers closely face-to-face, wiring them out of phase with one another, and playing a monaural source through them at high volume (but not too high)? I'm told most of the sound cancels out and this makes it tolerable to live with the things playing 24x7 for however long it takes, or at least playing for time than you would normally play them during the day. Of course, you miss out on the simulated bipolar disorder we get to go through as our new speakers sound awful, then good, then mediocre, then great, then dreadful, then...