corElement
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Greetings,
I have been lurking here for a few months and learnt a good bit and made a few decisions and now is the time I present what I've gone ahead with..
I had been going around listening to speakers and reading reviews all over the net and understanding the internals of audio components, frequencies, paper cones, the metals used, the transformers used etc, and how none of them really matter yet also matter in the quality of sound.
My budget was around 50k MAX for speakers but I refused to spend on just normal stuff for that range. I like my things to be unique in quality value and looks.
The brands I had auditioned for were
Pure acoustics, klipsch, philips, hollywood, tannoy, polk audio, wharfdale, tannoy, Sony, Samsung, yamaha, elac, onkyo - Almost everything which had good products for the sub 50 brand and also heard several +50 brands to understand what sets them apart and how to catch something worth more than 50k.
Floor Pieces:
When I was auditioning for the floor pieces, I tried to understand and recognize and differ between bright, warm, deep, cold, rich, fatigue, punching, shrills, etc sounds.
I wanted the floor standers to have a bright high, warm mids and deep lows. To question myself about this view and how drivers matter, I went to Bose. I listened to all their present models. I went to bose to try out what I learnt of all these other brands and what the fuss was all about.
The Instant I heard the highest model bose on their avr playing lord of the rings and any audio I instantly realised something, the sound was TERRIBLY WARPED, it felt all over the place, it was horrible to my ears. I couldnt believe the price of that sound was worth over 2lakhs. I ran out of the showroom seriously disgusted and went to klipsch.... PAINful sound, again I was really disappointed at how... cold the sound was no doubt.. the sound coming from a klipsch on an onkyo was far superior to any of the consumer htibs. It may have been my preference but the sound of klipsch is too crisp to listen and feel happy at home.
Various onkyo and pure acoustics experience.. onkyos amps from what I have researched seem to be loaded with features but have build issues but that is too subjective again so I'll just stick with my view on their htib models.. they're just ok... not worth their value 1 cent. I'd rather buy a z5500 from logitech than spend 55k on onkyo Htibs. Pure acoustics front pair and rear speakers, I'm not aware of the model number but they had glazed fronts and brass drivers around the 4-5i range, I knew they wouldn't be able to put out what I'm looking for.. but I heard them nevertheless, The towers themselves were near to the quality I was looking for but they were missing the highs and lows, the satellites were just ok if im being overly critical..however the pure acoustics sub was an epic fail at 150-200watts.
I went around auditioning with a select set of high quality recorded songs all over the place in ncr then I landed at the gurgaon MGF metropolitan mall cinebels showroom. They were loaed with JAMO towers and around my budget they presented me with the s405/6 5.0 set and s407/8...at first it sounded very bland but the sound was smooth and had a certain harmony, it was certainly more enjoyable than the harsher sounds like klipsch, not as articulate as wharfdale and not as sharp as yamaha. This was around 13k for the 5.0 set, so I asked the guy what they had for above this price range but not over 50k. Lo and behold he showed me the Jamo s606 and s718. Two models I had read about on this forum at this url
http://www.hifivision.com/speakers/2714-review-jamo-606-718-a.html
Let me tell you this, this guys review.. its true the 718 is better than the 606's but dont be put off by it, both sound superb! The s606 and s718 both were warm, harmonic and had the combination of "rich, deep and articulate" I was looking for. The 606 and 718 might have similar specs but they're very different in each other, the s606 and s608 are very famous online for being a budget 5.0 set but the s718 as speakers themselves the quality of sound was far superior. The difference was the s606 sounded far away while the s718 felt like like the singer was right infront of you and the music happening along side him. I asked the guy whats the thing on the side and he pointed out to a 10" driver built in to the pair, thus the s606/608 and s708/s718 ( S 718 Floorstanding Speaker - Description )had
1 tweeter
2 mid range the 6's had 5.5 hard cones the 7's had 6.5 softer cones
2 woofers - 8 on the 6's and 10's on the 7's
Everyone online told me a tower have such woofers on the body would make it have boomy overly bassy sound, let me tell you THIS IS NOT TRUE. if you wish for sound that feels like a jam session infront of you and harmonic notes flying infront of you YET not coloured! , very few speakers can beat the s718's. It's rich, its harmonic, its got the audiophilic look and more importantly the sound feels alive and not like a slap on your face!
If anyone has any questions or opinions on the s606 and s718's I'd love to hear em. Cuz mine are arriving on the 16th of Jan, 2010
Rear and center:
I auditioned for the e770 towers which I did not like as towers but then I found a listing on ebay US for a pair of e700's, the price of those are 25k+ so without battling an eyelid I bought em, 2 black rear e700's, excellent value for money and high end EISA award winning rears with 1st gen dtt tweeters!
Next in line was the center piece, I was looking at polk and tannoy but I found another cinebels on mehrauli road ghitorni in gurgaon which wasnt listed on their website and the guy there said he had one old stock e-7center and the store was closing, price 16k, Originally was 18-19k.
Overall the speaker audio quality I am superbly happy with and I feel it is indeed a very unique combination that rivals far more expensive ones!
End of the day.. its all subjective but if my kind of talk makes sense to you then you know I'm not talking just like that, its backed up by a lot of indepth research and hands on auditioning.
Now... someone help me out with avr's.. lol I'm about to start my research on them.. I want an hdmi one which has power and under 30k and dosnt cut off the front low frequencies since I'm not about to get a sub for a few months till wallet is fat again.. HELP!
AVR-793 Electronics - Description this one seems like a good one for playing off the comp but it dosnt have hdmi, analog dvd inputs and optical.. any suggestions pls.
I have been lurking here for a few months and learnt a good bit and made a few decisions and now is the time I present what I've gone ahead with..
I had been going around listening to speakers and reading reviews all over the net and understanding the internals of audio components, frequencies, paper cones, the metals used, the transformers used etc, and how none of them really matter yet also matter in the quality of sound.
My budget was around 50k MAX for speakers but I refused to spend on just normal stuff for that range. I like my things to be unique in quality value and looks.
The brands I had auditioned for were
Pure acoustics, klipsch, philips, hollywood, tannoy, polk audio, wharfdale, tannoy, Sony, Samsung, yamaha, elac, onkyo - Almost everything which had good products for the sub 50 brand and also heard several +50 brands to understand what sets them apart and how to catch something worth more than 50k.
Floor Pieces:
When I was auditioning for the floor pieces, I tried to understand and recognize and differ between bright, warm, deep, cold, rich, fatigue, punching, shrills, etc sounds.
I wanted the floor standers to have a bright high, warm mids and deep lows. To question myself about this view and how drivers matter, I went to Bose. I listened to all their present models. I went to bose to try out what I learnt of all these other brands and what the fuss was all about.
The Instant I heard the highest model bose on their avr playing lord of the rings and any audio I instantly realised something, the sound was TERRIBLY WARPED, it felt all over the place, it was horrible to my ears. I couldnt believe the price of that sound was worth over 2lakhs. I ran out of the showroom seriously disgusted and went to klipsch.... PAINful sound, again I was really disappointed at how... cold the sound was no doubt.. the sound coming from a klipsch on an onkyo was far superior to any of the consumer htibs. It may have been my preference but the sound of klipsch is too crisp to listen and feel happy at home.
Various onkyo and pure acoustics experience.. onkyos amps from what I have researched seem to be loaded with features but have build issues but that is too subjective again so I'll just stick with my view on their htib models.. they're just ok... not worth their value 1 cent. I'd rather buy a z5500 from logitech than spend 55k on onkyo Htibs. Pure acoustics front pair and rear speakers, I'm not aware of the model number but they had glazed fronts and brass drivers around the 4-5i range, I knew they wouldn't be able to put out what I'm looking for.. but I heard them nevertheless, The towers themselves were near to the quality I was looking for but they were missing the highs and lows, the satellites were just ok if im being overly critical..however the pure acoustics sub was an epic fail at 150-200watts.
I went around auditioning with a select set of high quality recorded songs all over the place in ncr then I landed at the gurgaon MGF metropolitan mall cinebels showroom. They were loaed with JAMO towers and around my budget they presented me with the s405/6 5.0 set and s407/8...at first it sounded very bland but the sound was smooth and had a certain harmony, it was certainly more enjoyable than the harsher sounds like klipsch, not as articulate as wharfdale and not as sharp as yamaha. This was around 13k for the 5.0 set, so I asked the guy what they had for above this price range but not over 50k. Lo and behold he showed me the Jamo s606 and s718. Two models I had read about on this forum at this url
http://www.hifivision.com/speakers/2714-review-jamo-606-718-a.html
Let me tell you this, this guys review.. its true the 718 is better than the 606's but dont be put off by it, both sound superb! The s606 and s718 both were warm, harmonic and had the combination of "rich, deep and articulate" I was looking for. The 606 and 718 might have similar specs but they're very different in each other, the s606 and s608 are very famous online for being a budget 5.0 set but the s718 as speakers themselves the quality of sound was far superior. The difference was the s606 sounded far away while the s718 felt like like the singer was right infront of you and the music happening along side him. I asked the guy whats the thing on the side and he pointed out to a 10" driver built in to the pair, thus the s606/608 and s708/s718 ( S 718 Floorstanding Speaker - Description )had
1 tweeter
2 mid range the 6's had 5.5 hard cones the 7's had 6.5 softer cones
2 woofers - 8 on the 6's and 10's on the 7's
Everyone online told me a tower have such woofers on the body would make it have boomy overly bassy sound, let me tell you THIS IS NOT TRUE. if you wish for sound that feels like a jam session infront of you and harmonic notes flying infront of you YET not coloured! , very few speakers can beat the s718's. It's rich, its harmonic, its got the audiophilic look and more importantly the sound feels alive and not like a slap on your face!
If anyone has any questions or opinions on the s606 and s718's I'd love to hear em. Cuz mine are arriving on the 16th of Jan, 2010
Rear and center:
I auditioned for the e770 towers which I did not like as towers but then I found a listing on ebay US for a pair of e700's, the price of those are 25k+ so without battling an eyelid I bought em, 2 black rear e700's, excellent value for money and high end EISA award winning rears with 1st gen dtt tweeters!
Next in line was the center piece, I was looking at polk and tannoy but I found another cinebels on mehrauli road ghitorni in gurgaon which wasnt listed on their website and the guy there said he had one old stock e-7center and the store was closing, price 16k, Originally was 18-19k.
Overall the speaker audio quality I am superbly happy with and I feel it is indeed a very unique combination that rivals far more expensive ones!
End of the day.. its all subjective but if my kind of talk makes sense to you then you know I'm not talking just like that, its backed up by a lot of indepth research and hands on auditioning.
Now... someone help me out with avr's.. lol I'm about to start my research on them.. I want an hdmi one which has power and under 30k and dosnt cut off the front low frequencies since I'm not about to get a sub for a few months till wallet is fat again.. HELP!
AVR-793 Electronics - Description this one seems like a good one for playing off the comp but it dosnt have hdmi, analog dvd inputs and optical.. any suggestions pls.
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You are pointing to an senior member here:sad:
just take it with a hint of salt, didnt mean any offence to anyone, just excitement 
