Silverline Sonata?

I have owned these speakers for several months. There is nothing wrong with how they are built. The build quality is as good as the best speakers around. They have a beautiful, real wood veneer. For some reason Silverline's Mr Yun has garnered a lot of enemies, witness the Avalon suit against him (no basis in my opinion) and the deletion of my favorable review of the Sonatas in the AudioAsylum forum. I don't know why that is, all I can say is the Sonatas are highly musical, low distortion, highly transparent and very enjoyable speakers. They are quite efficient, at well over 90dB and accept a wide range of amplifiers, from muscular solid state to SET. They will downstream the sound you feed them. They are not perfect, of course no speaker is, but easily comparable to other speakers of its price and much higher price as well. These are "window" speakers, that give you a window into the music, as opposed to enveloping you with euphonic sound. Probably Mr Yun has generated much envy in the audio world and stepped on the establishment's toes.

I own a pair of silverline sonatas as well as I have auditioned a lot of speakers,and the Sonatas have a wonderful BIG sound they really make you feel like your at a LARGE,BIG,FABULOUS concert hall(RADIO CITY). Alan Yun himself speaks to you over the phone at the factory, thats real customer service. If you should need advise Alan is there to answer all your questions and offer any help, try that with a big Corporate Speaker Company. Alan Yun will remember your name and has knowlege of your particular speaker, again try that with a large Coporate speaker company. This man loves his craft/Speakers(This is like stepping back in time when everything was made by hand, by someone who really cared and loved what they were making). Not a single speaker leaves the factory without Alan Yun hearing and tweaking the speaker.What does this all say? Just give the Sonata's one listen they can speak for themselves, then liston to what some other speakers have to say. (PROBABLY NOTHING)!

I have owned a pair of the new Silverline Sonatas and ahve been absolutely delighted with them. I had been driving them with an Italiam Mastersound parallel 845, but am now using Don Garbers Fi Super X (2A3s). There seems to be no problem with clipping. Stereophile compared them favorably with the $20K Sonus Faber Amatis and I think that they compare well with the $30K JMLab Utopias. I believe that they have excellent response throughout the frequency range, they image well, and are a great pleasure to listen to. At present, I can think of no speaker that I would rather have, regardless of price.