for those unaware the Kinki is a dense 50Ib's in what appears to be a standard 17" chasis
its also ugly as sin and ergonomically and functionally flawed
all meat on the bone no frills sonic goodness
the Elysians are like a big time tower from yesteryear with added refinement
cliches coming,
hearing things I never heard, Danny Boy by Jacintha, her breath and subtle mouth noises, the same with many female vocals,
piano keys with heavy weight to them.....a piano key struck live in person will feel and sound weighty, most speakers fail here imo.....plucking and strumming on strings has a clarity during the initial pluck and strum that most speakers also fail at imo
another not so abnormal downside discovered.....hearing all the background noise and noise floor in recordings..........
may need to seriously upgrade source and amp to minimize this
bad recordings play better than any speaker I've heard
example...alot of Aretha Franklin recordings are poor and they drown her voice in a hot mess of clutter....these speakers let her shine
they seem easy to drive and accurate to their 92db sensitivity spec and I suspect would do very well with tubes
I may need to get into a pair of purifi monos for the lower noise floor but that will be negated unless I can find s atreamer/dac combo with an equally low noise floor and I suspect those units would be north of 15k and out of my price range at the moment