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Comparisons bet. CDM 1NT and Concertino Home

Posted by Arnel on July 11, 2001 at 23:48:04

In Reply to: SF Concertino Home - no extended highs??? posted by Arnel on July 9, 2001 at 13:05:41:

Some notes on my previous B&W CDM 1NT (which I still plan to keep for a month, for comparison, just in case I would still prefer it to SF) -- I played Prokofiev "Violonsonaten" (Deutsche Grammophon) to compare the two speakers... the Concertino Home produced a much more realistic violin and piano sound (actually the best rendition of this recording that I've heard so far), whereas the 1NT tend to sharpen the piano sound and made the violin sound rather thin, with less body and weight. However, I got more sense of hall reverberations from the 1NT, and the Concertino Home had a bit more tendency to boom.

Then after trying out Pat Coil's "Steps" (Sheffield Lab), I just negated my previous observations that the 1NT has better balanced treble... this time it sounded too bright! My previous observations before were mostly based on Chesky recordings such as Christy Baron's "Steppin". Take note that I've had the Concertino Home for only a week now, so my listening to it is both limited and affected by lack of break-in.

I think what made me suspect that Concertino Home lacks treble energy is my experience with the Signum at the showroom... which sounded much like my CDM 1NT in the treble balance. After listening more to both Concertino Home and 1NT, I have traced the difference that the 1NT (and Signum) had stronger LOWER TO MID treble (around the hi-hat cymbal fundamentals) and NOT much in the extreme highs (around the cymbal's upper harmonics, and the sense of air) where, as Hyperion said, both speaker might lack ultimate extension. This fact makes the 1NT more exciting with pop music, because of the added zing. But this is strange... I've read magazines like Hi-Fi Choice that said the 1NT is POLITE... which puzzles me...

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