This article creates a new genre at LowBeats: the on-site listening test. With these articles we want to gain an assessment of particularly expensive (or heavy) components that we don’t bring into our listening room – precisely because they are too expensive, too heavy or both – but which are …
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Test Peak Consult Sonora: in the realm of the most beautiful mids
The Peak Consult Sonora is just a 2-way design in floor standing speaker format. But everything about it is so consistently realized that its basic virtues make it one of the best that LowBeats has ever played. The story starts back in 1996 and I’m probably doing company founder Per …
Read more »Test Spatial Europe MCS No. 2: Effortless dynamics
We have already tested several Mach One models from Spatial Europe and were thoroughly impressed by the open baffles. But in the fall, Mach-One boss Robert Andorf contacted us with complete euphoria. After months of research, he achieved an epoch-making breakthrough. So we were even more excited and immediately ordered …
Read more »Canton Reference 7 test: a well-rounded product through and through
Canton’s Reference series is entering its fourth generation, which the Hessians have given the suffix “2023” for the sake of better differentiation. Each of these generations had something special. However, the current 2023 series immediately catches the eye with its particularly high level of living space friendliness: Many curves create …
Read more »Test floorstanding loudspeaker Raidho TD 2.2: A cornucopia of elegance for the eye and ear
In March 2022, we presented – admittedly a little late – the extremely fascinating Raidho XT-1 compact speaker (price: 6,400 euros), which is so small and yet so full-featured. At the HIGH END of the same year, the Raidho people received a lot of applause for their gigantic flagship RD6 …
Read more »Test floorstanding speaker Burmester B28: primus inter pares
These days, Berlin’s flagship high-end manufacturer Burmester is always good for a surprise. On the electronics side, they present power amplifiers and amplifiers (e.g. 218 and 232) that make the competition pale with envy, and on the loudspeaker side, with the B28, a representative of the 15,000 euro league that …
Read more »Aluminum floorstanding speaker with ribbon coax: a test of the Piega Coax 611
I have been following the history of Piega since its beginnings. And of course, as a proven ribbon fan, I was very pleased that the Swiss (at least in the tweeter) consistently applied this principle. I was almost electrified when company co-founder and developer Kurt Scheuch came around the corner …
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