Sonics - Amerigo

Has anyone heard the Sonics Amerigo yet?

it's fairly new, on Stereophile there is a picture and one brief, positive sentence.

Thanks,
David

skickaskinka05-17-2010 12:55pm

samtse Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 49 posts 05-19-2010 at 04:19am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete after break in,please report,thanks
skickaskinka OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 21 posts 05-20-2010 at 11:08am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 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!
skickaskinka OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 21 posts 03-25-2011 at 03:03pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 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. =)