BTW,just a little update about my good friend's Mini version II's.
Previously I jumped the gun,a bit,referring to the upper midrange as slightly lacking in air,although I loved the speaker.I must confess,"that" was with 170 hrs on the new speakers.My friend,who now has 400 hrs on them,insisted they were much more open,and the upper mids were splendid.
Well,though I had always felt there was too much "break in" emphasis in this hobby,I was WRONG!
The speaker,as they sounded yesterday(after an eight hour extensive listening session,were "astoundingly good"!
Gone was the slight darkening of upper harmonic textures.This is the first product,in a long time,where the "over the top" reviewer was "not so over the top" afterall!
Of course the fabulous $55.00 bottle of Amarrone surely helped,but it is not too often that I get to hear such a wonderful sound system,where almost all of our ususl reference discs sound this good!
BTW,I have different(wonderful) speakers,but MUST give full credit to those Mini lovers out there.You have a real giant killer in those little(not really small)boxes!
Best to all!
Previously I jumped the gun,a bit,referring to the upper midrange as slightly lacking in air,although I loved the speaker.I must confess,"that" was with 170 hrs on the new speakers.My friend,who now has 400 hrs on them,insisted they were much more open,and the upper mids were splendid.
Well,though I had always felt there was too much "break in" emphasis in this hobby,I was WRONG!
The speaker,as they sounded yesterday(after an eight hour extensive listening session,were "astoundingly good"!
Gone was the slight darkening of upper harmonic textures.This is the first product,in a long time,where the "over the top" reviewer was "not so over the top" afterall!
Of course the fabulous $55.00 bottle of Amarrone surely helped,but it is not too often that I get to hear such a wonderful sound system,where almost all of our ususl reference discs sound this good!
BTW,I have different(wonderful) speakers,but MUST give full credit to those Mini lovers out there.You have a real giant killer in those little(not really small)boxes!
Best to all!