As I promised, I would continue the review of EOS2 speakers, due to work commitments I was not able to be present at the presentation, but I made up for it yesterday.
In this case, the distributor prepared a similar setup, the only difference was that instead of a Naim preamp it was a Linn Klimax, everything took place in a different room than the last time.
We started listening sessin with Madonna!!! with her hit Vogue, I was surprised by the choice, but immediately in the intro of the song I understood what the distributor was aiming for, in the intro of the song that I have heard hundreds of times, voices and sounds are heard approximately 3 meters from the speakers, as if we have surround speakers placed around the room, that was more pronounced on the right side where there is free space.
After that we got serious
And started listening to Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Mahler, the recordings alternated and the enthusiasm grew bigger and bigger, the stage was big, in the depth you could easily 'see' the symphony orchestra, and the speakers were completely disappeared in the room, it was most obvious on the recording Leopold Stokowski – Rhapsodies, Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 In C-Sharp Minor.
Although the relatively small speaker proved to be excellent for listening to classical music, the speed of the sound during the crescendo is impressive, and the deepest tones when listening sounded correctly, there was no loss of control and disintegration of the sound image in any situation, which is probably the merit of the power amp, in my opinion the most important thing is that what the speaker can play, it plays correctly, that it doesn't try to be a bigger speaker than it is, because that is very often the case it doesn't sound good.
I would also like to point out that I was very impressed by the sound of the violin in Vivaldi's Four Seasons – L'estate presto, the speed and intensity are fantastic, so we listened to it one more time.
After classical music, we moved on to lighter notes, rock, hard rock, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, on the recordings that I listened to countless times, I heard new details and was again delighted.
We ended the listening with jazz, E.S.T. and various jazz classics were also on the menu. Everything just sounded so good that 4 hours of listening flew by like minutes.
In the end, I would refer to the speaker set-up and placement in the space, the speakers were located approx. 0.5 meters from the back wall, separated by 2.5 meters, and the distance from the listening place to the speakers was 3 m. Before coming to listen, I agreed with Darin that we will play with the placement and settings for adjustment, the EOS2 has a switch with 3 positions on the back above the cable connections, and depending on the position, there is the possibility of additional adjustment, and the bass reflex opening can also be switched from the back to the front.
When we started listening to the music, the music simply drew us in, and when after 2 hours we remembered that we could try something else, we just didn't feel like to do anything, this sounded fantastically good. To correct myself, at the beginning I listened to the sounds, the sound of the violin, the sound of the piano, etc., after a while I didn't notice the sounds, I listened to the music.
The next day we talked on the phone and the distributor told me that by placing the speakers closer to the back wall, he got an even powerfull sound???!!! Namely, when we listened to Enter Sandman by Metallica, the sound lacked a bit of 'power', maybe one nuance that we might not have even looked for if everything else wasn't fantastic, we were simply looking for any flaw in the sound. Since the distributor is very handy/skilled, you can see in the pictures how he completed the sound picture with an additional guitar .
My conclusion is that it is a extraordinary speaker that is designed for all musical genres, so it is an all-rounder intended for placement against the back wall with great fine-tuning options.
In the last year, I have heard a lot of good systems and speakers, some even at home, but the EOS2 impressed me the most.
As the title says its 'blows my mind'.