Sonics - Amerigo

just to add: i've read the reviews available on the internet.
what i'm interested in is real Audiogoners giving their honest opinions.

thanks Samtse,
the allegra and allegria are well known and tested, but the amerigo is a box design made for the american market, so the sound signature may be different from the established models. i may just pick up a pair to audition at home, since i may be able to get them below retail. if i do, you'll hear from me.

a pair of Sonics Amerigo are on the way, along with a pair of Thiel CS1.6.
i'll A/B/C these against my old Thiel CS0.5, and report back on what i hear!

well it's like this: after living with the sonics for a while and testing against the thiel 1.6, i can honestly say that i believe the thiel 1.6 are way over rated. the sonics beat them in every way possible, and the used price was very similar at around €2k each. i'm very happy with the amerigo.

there's alot more air in the music, everything is just more effortless and bigger, wider and more realistic. they're easier to drive as well. i dunno, there's not much point in making a comparison, everything is just better. the thiels seemed a bit flat and two dimensional compared with the amerigo. admittedly, the thiels are a two-way speaker and the amerigo are three-way. a fair comparison would have been amerigo vs thiel 2.4, but i don't have a pair of them. =)