I have pairs of the bach grand and mozart grands that I bought when Best Buy dropped the line back in 2011. In my experience these are very setup dependent speakers. The small drivers mean there isn't a lot of punch and the surprisingly deep bass they produce is coming from the ports. I'm currently using the Mozarts as computer speakers with an old Creek 5350SE and Cambridge dac magic. This is a great combination and I find the bass very satisfying nearfield.
When I had these same speakers set up in a much larger living room that was fairly reflective I thought they sounded downright bad. No punch and they sounded overly colored and just weird in there. My Thiel 2 2s sounded a million times better.
I've been told that these are designed with the European market in mind and that in Europe, rooms tend to be smaller and construction tends to be more solid so the bass reinforcement of the room can be made to work with these speakers rather than against them. I had them set up in a small bedroom at one time and I thought they sounded great in there as well.
In my opinion these speakers are fine in smaller rooms or nearfield and they are probably fine in some larger rooms if you aren't listening to music where punch and bass resolution are very important. They're nice with vocals, maybe classical where what bass there is tends to be slow to build and slow to decay.
The differences between the Bach grand and mozart grand are mainly that the mozart uses a little bit better tweeter so it's a bit more resolving and the mozart goes a little lower before the bass starts to sound mushy and slow. That seems to be the most noticeable difference with this line. They all go surprisingly deep in the bass for their size but as you move up the line the quality of the bass remains higher to progressively lower frequencies.
When I had these same speakers set up in a much larger living room that was fairly reflective I thought they sounded downright bad. No punch and they sounded overly colored and just weird in there. My Thiel 2 2s sounded a million times better.
I've been told that these are designed with the European market in mind and that in Europe, rooms tend to be smaller and construction tends to be more solid so the bass reinforcement of the room can be made to work with these speakers rather than against them. I had them set up in a small bedroom at one time and I thought they sounded great in there as well.
In my opinion these speakers are fine in smaller rooms or nearfield and they are probably fine in some larger rooms if you aren't listening to music where punch and bass resolution are very important. They're nice with vocals, maybe classical where what bass there is tends to be slow to build and slow to decay.
The differences between the Bach grand and mozart grand are mainly that the mozart uses a little bit better tweeter so it's a bit more resolving and the mozart goes a little lower before the bass starts to sound mushy and slow. That seems to be the most noticeable difference with this line. They all go surprisingly deep in the bass for their size but as you move up the line the quality of the bass remains higher to progressively lower frequencies.