Duet15
Behind the scenes about this specific Duet15 set and the 6moons ‘crumbled’ review
This feedback is a unique one for us because this specific set is the one we refused to complete its shipment to Mr. Srajan Ebean from 6moons for a review. Reason is Mr. Ebean arrogance, attitude and language during our communication, that we were not ready to take, even not from a ‘reviewer’.
Once the decision to cut the communication with Mr. Ebean was taken we put this set on sale and within few days it was purchased by a customer in NL.
We shipped the items Mr. Ebean already had to the customer and completed the shipment of the woofers that Mr. Ebean did not yet receive. Few weeks after we received the first feedback from the customer and some time after one more. These feedback turned to be the real-life Part 2 of what was supposed to be Mr. Ebean Part2 review at 6moons.
What a great end to this weird event… 😉👍🏻
(You can read the complete story at our ‘Blogazine’)
Customer feedback:
“After a short week of listening to the Duets I owe you a small report.
Installing the duets on Saturday was easy and straight forwarded, however with some help from my son.
Listening for the first time is very exiting. I was immediately happy with the combination with my Crofts, I was especially worried about the volume, but the Duets react about the same way as the ‘———-‘…
Of course I listened to all kind of music and the listening journey came with big highs and lows. The lows where especilally related to lack of bass at times. Unpredictable. I realized that it isn’t fair to judge this when there isn’t a proper break in time. I was lucky to work all week at home, so I switched in to a classical radio station and let it play most of the days during this week.
Yesterday I shoved the speakers around to find a good sweet spot and ended up a little closer to the back wall and a little toe-in. Bass immediately improved.
Today I had a serious listening session and wow… I am impressed…
The Voxativ driver is unbelievable. The clear tones, no harshness, the openness, the huge sound stage. Really really impressive.
Somehow the Neo woofers also opened up. The bass is excellent, very clear too, and very detailed.
My room is very difficult with a lot of glass and with the ———- I always had trouble with treble. The harshness, even distortion in high, loud strings and vocal passages are totally gone.
Now listening to symphonic pieces of Poulenc (RTE National Symphony Orchestra -Naxos) which gives me a real joy in realism, dynamics, high, mids and bass. Instrument focus is brilliant.
I couldn’t resist to hook up an old solid state power amp, a Belles 350A, to replace the Croft mono’s…. No…. Not a chance. I noticed further that the crofts really need warming up time to make the Duets sing… I never noticed that with the ‘———-‘…
In short: I am a happy man, Ze’ev!”
————- few weeks after ————
“After a month of playing I think the Duets got stable and they are burned in completely. The sound is amazingly good. It is all there, the focus, the stereo image, the powerful but detailed bass and the incredible Voxativ mids and highs. You never get tired listening. I have a broad spectrum of genres I listen to. No matter what, the old Mingus mono records or the latest HD classical recordings, the jazzrock 70’s vinyl., they all sound as I never heard before. Just wanted you to know… Maybe a point later in time I would like to have some more info about changing the caps or resistors (if these are the right names) and change them with the set you delivered. Wonder if the sound could even be better. Also on the future program is to add some roomcorrection to repair some ups and downs in my room. I thought about minidsp. But I wonder if this might take the magic away. The Duets perform much btw better in hiding the room anomalies then the totems I had. The magic of open baffle I guess. Thanks again and let me know when the green bases are available.”
J.J., Netherlands
