I took delivery of the Dynaudio Audience 62's last week and immediately set about turfing out the Epos 12.2's. No room for sentiment here and I was a child possessed. As one can imagine with new kit, I've been through my cd faves to look for the differences, the improvements over the Epos'.
I love my Epos speakers and for good reason. Along with the NVA amp and Cyrus cd player and nva connecting stuff the sound is very very pleasing indeed. I would strongly recommend them anytime to anyone. They are good. Just one problem - they are standmounts (a perceived space-saver in my shoebox living room) which suffer from the usual problem of insufficient bass (for me at least but not my neighbour).
Enter the Dyno's stage left. ooooooOOOOOOoooooo. It feels like my birthday. Whacking on my absolute favourite track 'Pampas Border' by the Angel Brothers with Satnam Singh (album 'From Punjab to Pit Top')..... it first opens up with organ, quickly followed by a thing or 2 being tapped in a percussive kind of way. Building with tom-toms and accordian the organ begins to swirl, in comes acoustic guitar and then finally, finally, we get gut-churning growling base. Bleedin' 'ell. Pump up the volume and see off the neighbours. I'm in heaven and my neighbour is having a chat with Satan. Ha
I love these speakers. The trouble is I can't vocalise as well as some to describe their attributes as I simply don't know what some terms mean. For example fast, open, transparency - dunno.
What I do know is that these produce a sound which sounds (er, sorry) like it costs more. There is definate imagery, definate sound stage, definate FULL SOUND. OK, OK I can imagine what some terms mean ) My wife nailed it with the comment "they have a much fuller sound, much bigger depth of field than your old speakers". Depth of field is good. I actually feel like the band is sitting in my living room ('cup of tea while your playing Mr Angel sir?') and can see the various instruments being fiddled about with. Bass - good - heading towards the earths mantle. Not quite there (need more money for that).
Change of cd and the Dyno's have removed the lisp which Peter Gabriel suffered throughout 'Sledgehammer'.
Change of cd to a raft of classical tracks. Piano, violin and choral all are reproduced so, so well. I love these speakers. I know, I've said that already.
In a nutshell, there is a much greater frequency response, greater clarity, greater imaging. *When I say 'greater' this is compared to my standmounts. What they also produce with my kit is an uncoloured sound. Again, full marks to NVA amp and cabling and cyrus cd player.
I can't enthuse anymore or I'll burst. ('wafer thin mint Mr Creosote?').
Stop press - I've just received Mozarts Complete Violin Concertos through the post - it sounds bloody gorgeous (seams are beginning to split).
Now, do I keep my Epos or sell them. I really like the Epos.
Oh god, I have a headache and still grinning like an idiot for a full week now.
When the wife has made more money round the back of the Miners Welfare and Copacabana Club and the kids have cleaned a few more chimleys I'm upping to the 82's. They can only sound even better.
I took delivery of the Dynaudio Audience 62's last week and immediately set about turfing out the Epos 12.2's. No room for sentiment here and I was a child possessed. As one can imagine with new kit, I've been through my cd faves to look for the differences, the improvements over the Epos'.
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