Just to clarify, were you listening to the Fluance speakers or the Fluance components installed in your project enclosure?
Interesting situation! Do we need this....
I had a very interesting and unsettling experience that brings this hobby all together...or rips it apart. Recently, I bought a pair of Fluence SX6 speakers, on sale at Amazon for $120 pair. A small, black, two way bookshelf speaker. Highly-positively reviewed. My plan was to pull the drivers to use in another project. I couldn't buy drivers and crossovers like this for $120(More on this later)...Anyways, I was listening to my new kit amplifier, AKITIKA Z4 that I recently built...Streaming Quobuz...The Fluance speakers were set up next to the KEF LS50 Metas as I had used them previously to test yet another kit amplifier, Nelson Pass' ACA Mini.....For six hours I was simply amazed at how great the AKITIKA kit amp sounded. Massive sound stage, tight, well defined bass, some of the best vocals I've heard, the "AIR" around jazz instruments was fantastic!.....a system to behold...playing through my KEF LS50 Metas....Six hours later, after all types of music, it was time to call it a night (or early morning)....As I go to shut down the system, I realize that all night I was listening to the Fluance speakers!!! They were placed side by side with the KEFs. Do we really need any of this high end equipment to really enjoy the music!
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@rbertalotto - First, I appreciate your candidness in sharing your experience. Not every audiophile would admit having done this. I’d be most curious to see if you sat down to listen to the Fluance speakers again knowing what you were listening to would taint your experience. Clearly, the combination of the amplifier and speakers was good enough to draw you in, but I suspect that there was some expectation bias from the amplifier being what you were intending to evaluate. I hope you find the KEFs to be an even better sound as one would anticipate should be the case. |
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