I tried searching for a place to purchase Rockport Alya for about half a year because my room has only 4 meters for depth. Since they no longer sell a new product, I have to gamble from 2nd market den. Luckily, I found a pair from France's distrubutor branch called Fusion Acoustic. If something goes wrong, I trust they'll handle it well as Rockport's distributor. It arrived here on Monday and I've been burning it for about 50hrs now.
So far, it sounds really great. I steeled my heart for smaller scale sound and with some loss of lower frequencies to produce full sound like Mira II/Ankaa model I used to own. Unexpectedly, they handle the lower frequencies very good despite being so small with only 6.5 inch driver. The driver can't handle low frequency at high volume like above -20db from preamp on track 8 'Demagnetizing Fade' of XLO Reference CD. However, it doesn't affect real songs I heard so far.
I heard a lot of bad news about this pair from a few places but I have faith in Andy that he didn't disappoint me in previous models. So it can't really be that bad for him to make price no objective speakers for small room. I assumed most people who heard Alya poorly may not have enough powerhouse amplifier. Alya has only 85db sensitivity so it actually requires more watts than most speakers out there. I'm driving Rockport with Karan 600 with 1000W@4ohm and I couldn't be happier with it.
Rockport Alya is really specialized product. It's very small yet requires powerful amplifier to drive it. I saw a lot of people I know and many pics from community with a large pair of speakers in small room. I hope some days people would try to buy the right product. There's no way they get can the best out from over-sized speakers. I've been with Mira II/Ankaa for a few years and I learnt it in a long way that I can't beat physics.
If you want to make a big system in small room, you couldn't be happier with Rockport Alya. I heard a few speakers utilizing beryllium driver and aluminum baffle. Alya does terrafic job. It made me forget to nit-pick of hits and misses.
So far, it sounds really great. I steeled my heart for smaller scale sound and with some loss of lower frequencies to produce full sound like Mira II/Ankaa model I used to own. Unexpectedly, they handle the lower frequencies very good despite being so small with only 6.5 inch driver. The driver can't handle low frequency at high volume like above -20db from preamp on track 8 'Demagnetizing Fade' of XLO Reference CD. However, it doesn't affect real songs I heard so far.
I heard a lot of bad news about this pair from a few places but I have faith in Andy that he didn't disappoint me in previous models. So it can't really be that bad for him to make price no objective speakers for small room. I assumed most people who heard Alya poorly may not have enough powerhouse amplifier. Alya has only 85db sensitivity so it actually requires more watts than most speakers out there. I'm driving Rockport with Karan 600 with 1000W@4ohm and I couldn't be happier with it.
Rockport Alya is really specialized product. It's very small yet requires powerful amplifier to drive it. I saw a lot of people I know and many pics from community with a large pair of speakers in small room. I hope some days people would try to buy the right product. There's no way they get can the best out from over-sized speakers. I've been with Mira II/Ankaa for a few years and I learnt it in a long way that I can't beat physics.
If you want to make a big system in small room, you couldn't be happier with Rockport Alya. I heard a few speakers utilizing beryllium driver and aluminum baffle. Alya does terrafic job. It made me forget to nit-pick of hits and misses.