Re: New for 2016 - Introducing the Luna Mini Monitor!
Originally Posted by
chomdh
I mostly bought the Luna's for 5 channel movie sound but was listening to some 80's and 90's playlists on Tidal last night and I was so impressed with what I was hearing with 5 channels of music. I had my Denon x4200W set to "neural X" so I'm not sure how that's different from 5 channel stereo. But it did seem to take only certain bits of audio to the rear channels, like backup vocals and other effects only.
Anyway, a track where the clarity of RAALS all around was apparent to me was Santa Monica by Everclear, a song that was popular when I was watching MTV and music videos as much as possible. Starts off very simple with guitar & vocals but builds throughout, and again the guitars sound perfect through my 5 channels of Ascend speakers. I also wound up going through some Michael Jackson, which always sounds incredible on this system, and some Cars, songs my Dad would play growing up.
Before last night, it had been a couple of weeks since I sat down for a long music session but I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it due to these Ascend speakers. Those RAAL tweeters are the secret sauce. Not sure if I just did a better job with Audessy calibration this time (after adding the surrounds) but my system sounds better than ever now.
Probably just a fluke. Those RAALS are all snake oil!
Ed
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