This $1,100 Emotiva T1+/Denon PMA 600NE system floors the Audiophiliac
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Specs
Configuration: Three-way floor standing tower loudspeaker.
Cabinet tuning: Rear port.
Driver Complement
High frequency driver: 25×32 mm Airmotiv folded ribbon tweeter.
Midrange driver: 5-1/4” woven fiber cone.
Low frequency drivers: 6” woven fiber cones (2).
Electrical Specifications
Efficiency: 88 dB (2.83V/1m).
Power handling: 150W continuous / 300W peak.
Recommended amplifier power: 75W - 350W / channel.
Nominal impedance: 4 ohms.
Frequency response: 37 Hz - 28 kHz (+3/-3 dB).
Crossover (midrange / tweeter): 2700 Hz, 12 dB / octave.
Crossover (woofer / midrange): 275 Hz, 12 dB / octave.
Dual speaker terminals for bi-amping or bi-wiring.
Mechanical
Dimensions:
37-5/8” high x 8-3/8” wide x 11-5/8” deep (no feet).
39-1/2" high x 8-3/8” wide x 11-5/8” deep (with spikes).
42” long x 14” wide x 17” deep (boxed).
Weight: 40.1 pounds (unboxed). 53 pounds (boxed).
Mounting: Permanently attached outrigger feet with rubber pads (detachable adjustable spikes included).
Grille: Black cloth over a rigid frame; attaches securely with powerful magnets for easy removal.
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The Denon PMA 600 NE is a significant contributor to the results here. Your review of this amp just five months ago reveals how good it is. No wonder it's keeping its place Chez Steve.
“Killer shirt” Steve- dig it!
I do enjoy the teal green with sailboats look.
1980s Miami Vise, lol.
Sure rocks!
Much of Steve's power comes directly from his shirts.
I was just thinking the same thing... LOL!
I don't own emotiva speakers but if they make speakers like the power amplifiers they make they are more than good for the price
Steve I just bought this system I won't get evicted from my apartment will I? Lol.
These look like the speakers Darth Vader would buy his son. But not Luke, he's clearly buys soundbars at the maul.
Would like to hear a review of the Emotiva T2+ speakers.
I've been considering that one.
My T1+ dip down lower than my Elac Reference 52s. But as with most skinny towers you're going to want a sub or two.
You'll be hard pressed to find a better tower in the sub $1k price.
Great review, the best part was when you came back from the future as Doc Brown to tell us about Avatar and the amps 1.21 gigawatts
Do you need a subwoofer with most speakers (that don't have one inside)? For music, the audiophile answer is yes. Consider: Several musical instruments produce frequencies below 45 or even 40 Hz. These aren't esoteric instruments. They include the string bass, piano, tuba, electric bass guitar, and most digital keyboards readily produce tones down to 32 Hz (pianos and keyboards go lower). Why are you satisfied with response to 45 Hz? Because the pop recordings produce the headbanger bass from about 45 to 90 Hz or so? Your head gets banged nicely. But you are missing some serious tones that occur in all types of music.
So, you're an audiophile, right? Don't you want to hear all the music in the recording?
Also beware that many common "subwoofers" only go to about 35-40 Hz. That means you are barely going to hear the lowest two or three notes of the scale -- if at all. You're an audiophile, right? Those notes are almost always there in all kinds of music, especially from basses and bass guitars.
So, no need to go lower, right? Partly wrong. There are room effects and standing waves that go down below 32 Hz that 'add' to the experience, especially of music recorded in larger halls. You can probably hear to about 16-20 Hz -- even if you're 75 years old. Frequency content in that low range adds an 'ambiance' to the experience. It is there in the recording. You're an audiophile, right? SVS and I think REL make subwoofers that can work nicely down to 16-20 Hz.
Kind of an addendum: Pipe organs often produce *fundamental* tones to 16 Hz. At the same SPL, these tones can be felt in your gut -- even if you don't hear them clearly. They are there to provide the emotion of that music. You might want to hear that. Even if you don't like pipe organ music, there's still ambient information down there.
You're an audiophile, right?
-Just one man's view
Yes, you're absolutely right! Glad I'm using a sub.
Agreed! I would go ever further and say that most people should consider buying TWO subwoofers, if you can afford it. Having one on each side of my listening room made the soundstage from my speakers appear much larger than my single sub setup.
I've heard SVS might be the best Rock and Blues speaker, but will it handle standards and classical or spoken word without harshness?
@@Diatonic5th I have read this, too, but haven't tried it. Do you give the subs left AND right signals, or are they both on L+R mixed? And what low pass frequency setting do you use?
Build your own subs. Building great speakers is hard. Building great subs is a lot easier. I’l give you a tip, forget the imaginary “one sub” rule that seems to exist. 20hz is a world away from 40hz. Try and make one sub or one pair of subs play the full low frequency range with audiophile accuracy and it’s not going to happen. Too many changes in phase and timing across such a large range.
You want a “normal” sub, that plays strong to say, 30hz. And then you want a sub-sub. To play from below 20 to around 30ish.
Walk into a hifi store and ask for that and they’l look at you like you’re an idiot 😂
Make John Darko the first "reviewer for a day" with the constraint that he shoots the video with a smartphone! No Olaf, no Jana!
Spongebob Schwanzkopf no Olaf Von Voss is the camera man, Jana edits
I have a pair of T1 MK I and I used them with lot of amplifications. I don't remember even one of them which Emotiva sounded bad with. But in fact, they gets very better the way you improve the electronics. I used them with Rotel, Parasound, and now I'm using them with a TAG McLaren 100x5 power amp. Very clean, natural and controled sound. No plains for changing my Emotiva speakers, only the electronics.
This is excellent reviewing! One can virtually imagine hearing the pair. And the technical aspect is significantly harmonized with the listening! The 40 Hz bass reminds me of my old pair of Rectilinear 3...measured by me down to 40 Hz...they sounded exciting in the bass range, not overdamped, and not loose. And a special bargain.
I purchased the T2 over the T1 for bass reasons. I'm not a fan of integrating subs into 2 channel listening. Steve described them well. Very airy, a.k.a transparent. Midrange is a tad dry but accurate. The T2 bass though, is in no way lacking! Try out Bela Fleck flight of the cosmic hippo. Theres plenty of low end, but fingers going across strings detail is easily heard. Price is a bargain.
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Dang, too many choices in the affordable speaker category! You make them all sound so tempting, too!
One question - you mention that you paired them with your Pass Labs XA25 and heard definite improvement but you thought that was an "unrealistic" pairing. Shaun over at Zero Fidelity recently did a video where he said he thought that affordable speakers have gotten so good in the last several years that the traditional thinking about how to allocate funds may have changed and you can now spend less on speakers and more on electronics. I was wondering your thoughts on the subject. For about $5,700 and if you spent about half on the amp and half on the speakers, do you think that would sound better than the Pass Labs (at $5,000) and the Emotivas (at $700)?
I think that you need to backwards engineer your system.
You can pair your Emotivas with an expensive amp as a reference. Then pair with decreasingly less expensive amps untill you reach a price point where the sound is acceptably close to what you heard from the expensive amp.
You might find that the speakers (and possibly the cables) are a limiting factor.
Sort of like terminating a fire hose with a garden hose nozzle. The output (in this case the sound quality that is acceptable to you) may only justify hooking up a garden hose to the nozzle.
Unless your plan is to walk the speaker upgrade path or maybe troll the used market for a discounted classic amplifier. IMHO.
Steve has given you an amplifier that is a really great starting choice. If I were in the market for a starter, I would first consider the features that were essential. Next would I look up amplifiers that are from $100.00 below to as high as you can reasonably go without guilt. Then I would search for the most comprehensive and trustworthy reviews of the 5-10 amplifiers that I felt were the best for me. Next I would call local dealers to see if they carried the brands and models that interested me, to arrange a demo and/ or a loner (if I couldn't bring my speakers in for the demo) bearing in mind that you have a limited time to also audition your speakers.
Alternatively, you could mail order online if there is a good return policy.
One other thing. When you order your speakers ask about cables.
Do all amplifierd working within their linear tange sound equal?
Billy 11 Integrated amp
Denafrips Aeres I DAC
REL T7i sub
The rest on speakers, suggest Magnepan
@@carlosbauza1139That can be a broad question. Considering just four factors of many. Frequency response, loudness, detail retrieval and timbre ( tone to some). Which is the closest to what you are thinking about? Or is it something else?
@@carlosbauza1139
Do all amplifiers working within their linear range sound the same?
I don't know, but an interesting question.
"Operating within their linear range".
Theoretically, like that, maybe they do. Theoretically is one thing, but hooked up to a complex load... that's different.
There's differences.
Over time however it's become clear to me that amplifiers do sound different ... significantly different.
Similarly to certain loudspeaker colorations, once you've heard the characteristic, you become adept at distinguishing that sonic attribute again.
There's countless design topologies. Some are complex buttoned down approaches. Some are designed with fewer components and a simpler design.
Some circuit approaches yield a different proportion of low order to higher order distortions.
There's poorly measuring designs that sound more pleasing than better measuring amplifier designs.
Accurately tracking and amplifying the music signal is what the amplifier is tasked with.
Once hooked up to a complex load of a loudspeaker makes that task more difficult. Impedance of a single speaker can ranges from very low to high across the music spectrum. Add in the inductive or capacitive aspect that stores and releases energy in anything but a timely linear fashion.
@steveguttenberg, would Elac Debut 2.0, DB62 Bookshelf Speakers be a good pairing with this PMA 600NE? Thanks
I appreciate the inset of the products in the video.
I love that his shirt looks kind of like that 90's paper cup pattern
I think it's a nautica brand shirt
I listened with my denon PMA 800 NE which I usually use use for my tv system but hooked it up to my Harbeth super HL5 40th with 2 Rel S5 and it was ok but the PMA is not even close to how good the system sounds with my 17 year old B&K components ST 125.3 and PT5 which can be picked up quite cheap
Yahu Nanach vintage , reasonably priced quality gear, especially if is a correctly paired amp and preamp is u deniable....starts w a high current amp....I actually have vintage EMOTIVA prepro and amp which would pair nicely w these speakers. Goota replace the capacitors on all vintage gear, i am searching for a reliable local tech to do that for all my vintage gear this year.
I have the t-zeros (powered 10in 100w klipsch sub) with a 75*2 watt dayton audio fed thru either a geshelli enog2 or kguss k3 dac from the tv optical out/laptop usb. Budget bliss, until i find a dac/receiver/pre with more input options.
As is, I like the detail, soundstage & and overall sound, but the horizontal sweet spot is small. Hitting way above price point tho. No regrets.
Now I learned this: „Space is the final frontier“ - haha
I want to follow Steve’s orders so hard, but I cannot put more than 6 inches between speaker/wall!!!
Thanks for your reviews!!!🙏🏼
Got the Paradigm 7 4v as SURROUND🫣 and 9’s for Front Left and Right…
Would anyone can tell me if this Emotiva T1 could sound with more detail, clarity, spacial 3D and depth?
Got a deal for the T1’s for $330 used like new🤔
Maby get the T1 for Fron L and R?😁🤔🫣
Anyone please?
Thanks!
This all looks good. My question is, why does anyone make tower speakers with ports anywhere but straight down out of the bottom anymore? I know it's probably more expensive than just cutting a hole in the front or back, but doesn't making the port come out of the bottom make the speaker's placement much more flexible? Does it somehow make the bass not as good as a well placed speaker with rear or front ports?
Would love your opinion of the Denon 600NE versus the NAD c316 BEE V2 amp Steve please.
Maybe you’ve already done something similar, but I think it would be fun to do a video on common mistakes made by those new to higher end audio...such as placing speakers close to walls and corners because it seems like the bass is “better”. I know I was guilty of this when I was first getting started!
What I really like about your reviews is that you're always referring to specific albums when you try something new. Most reviewers just waste our time, talking about features, specs etc, without ever saying what they listened to, in order to reach this or that conclusion. Let alone the over usage of generic, robotic, parrot-like phrases, like "it gives more clarity, has better sound, adds more depth etc". More depth than what? The Atlantic or the Pacific ocean?
Are you referring to zero Fidelity? 😏
@@kohnfutner9637 No, not him. I don't know what this reviewer is like. Is he like that? By the way, I'm not referring to just one. There are several like this. Others try gear with the same 4 songs, every time. Songs that they like, that is. For me, if you want to check and try something, you have to try it with a variety of genres. Not the same few songs, that happen to be of your taste. Also, the material has to be challenging for the machine you review. Most of these morons, only know about their xlrs and their spdifs.
@@Yiannis2112 I just watched his video (zero Fidelity). I thought it was informative enough. He can sometimes be that way but he's better at explaining. I wish he did sound demos though.
@@kohnfutner9637 Thing is you don't need too many explanations. Most of us already know how to connect things, understand specs, features etc. If we don't, we're just a few clicks away from anything. Manuals, terminal types, in/out types, tables/charts, terminology etc.
What we cannot possibly know is how something sounds. That's what a reviewer is mainly for. What we need is reviewers to be along the following lines: "I'm trying this new pair of speakers. I connect them to this and that ref system, that through months of listening to it, I know it has this or that character. I tried these new speakers with Tina Turner's a capella vocals, but also with an 80 piece orchestra recorded at Air Lyndhurst studios. I also tried them with the 5th album of this jazz band (which happens to be a top notch recording), but also with the 2nd demo of this punk band which, understandably so being a demo, has crap recording quality. This double live album from Chick Corea, too. My conclusion is this..."
Steve does that. He tells you what and from who. The Soundnews guy also. Home Studio Basics, John Darko are more than OK, but could do better. iiWi News is so and so.
From the top of my head, people who don't (and I consider many them as trendy posers who are just full of it, spending 14min of blah blah and just one, to tell you about actual audio performance, while never being specific) are The Next Best Thing Studio, The Hans Beekhuyzen Channel, Joshua Valour, Thomas & Stereo, David Sylvia, Currawong, Z Reviews, Andrew Robinson and may be as you say Zero Fidelity (I have to check him out). Too many of them, I have to say. With these people, it's as if looking to buy a new car, but no one tells you how it behaves on the road. Yet he knows what diameter is the screw that holds the interior mirror...
Also, you rarely get comparisons between same type, same cost gear. Finally there are others who are making unboxing videos...! As if we cannot check the manufacturer's or a dealer's page and see what's inside the darn box. Go figure...! Audiophiles and music fans, my ass...
@@kohnfutner9637 PS Yes, sound demos would be great, regardless of yt sound quality. Great idea. Very few people do sound demos and usually that's it. Nothing else about the product or the rest of the system being connected to. Even less are reviewing the product, too. Btw New Record Day is also one of those not referring to specific music they tried, but he's not using generic words and expressions. However, he talks instrumentation a lot. Cymbals, bass drums, pianos, flutes, guitars etc which is brilliant. He seems to know his stuff. If he would be more specific, his channels would be top.
Thanks for the music tips, always good to learn about new artists. And I didn't like that Elvis Costello record at the time either, but now can appreciate it. Nice speaker review that is a counter to people who say that everything is too expensive these days. Twenty years ago, I could not imagine that you could find gear that sounds as good for the money spent as what you can get now.
Love the way you help us broke people to help us get great affordable gear. Thank you
If you had to choose between the B1+ and a decent sub, or the T1+ without a sub, which would you pick for general music listening?
I am gonna guess the T1+ based on it able to get down to 40 hZ and having a 3 way speaker at least used to be considered a +.
T1+, much better midrange, and more and better bass.
@@SteveGuttenbergAudiophiliac "more and better bass" than the B1+ WITH a decent subwoofer?
Kelly Cook as a T1 owner I’d ask about the size of your room. My smallish living room eats up the mids. Also, I have no neighbors, so when I want thrills I can open the throttle and no one is there to complain! So if you share a wall with another person I might go B1, myself.
T+ with Dual subs!
I value your CD / music recommendations Steve. My kind of music
Great review ! Nice to see a tower speaker review and how it performed in home theater albeit without a center although the matching center and your thoughts would have been a plus. 👍🏼
This sounds like a great combination. Interested in picking up the T1+'s, for my own PMA600NE, but I just assumed the amp would under power them *shrugs*
What can you tell about PMA600NE? Will you buy it again? Im thinking about buying: Denon pma600ne or Marantz pm6006 or Yamaha as501
Great review, as usual. Q: Where did u get that great shirt? LOVEIT!
Great vid Steve. Can you tell me which amp You would choose between the Denon 600 NE and the NAD 316 BEE v2 ? I have the Elac Debut 2.0 B6.2.
I am wondering how the pma800ne compares to the pma600ne, I went with the pma800ne and just thinking is the 600ne actually better musically or are they really similar. I also was interested if in connecting my pro ject carbon rpm3 with sumiko blue to a better phono stage than the one on the pma800ne?
I was thinking the same, i guess it just comes down to 800 having a higher output but the 800 doesn't have a sub out like the 600.
I think for my needs the 600ne would be fine.
Steve, which would you prefer, a pair of the Emotiva T1+ speakers, or a pair of the Klipsch RP8000F speakers, in a medium-sized room, for all-around 2-channel listening, not considering the price difference?
I've been wondering the same.
I already have the Denon PMA600NE amp and was going to buy the T1+ speakers, but Emotiva was out of stock. So I bought the T2+ speakers instead, now at $699 a pair. Haven't got them hooked up yet, but I'm expecting great things.
I just finishing up listening William Onyeabor's 'Atomic Bomb' album and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Sort of like a cross of (Nigerian) Afro-funk and reggae. I own Jimmy Dawkins' first album 'Fast Fingers', but have yet to hear his 'Come Back Baby' album. Gonna' listen to that next! 😉 Thanks!
Thank you for this review! I logged a couple of new-to-me LPs into my ever expanding Discogs want list.
The speakers alone are $1177 where I live
I recently got the Denon PMA 600 amp. with JBL A-180 speakers (on sale and per ur enthusiasm for the A-170's) and am very happy with it. Love JBL bass.
It appears Elac is using the same high frequency driver as this Emotive. I'm wondering how they compare 🤔? Anyone know? Steve.....are you there?
Almost Blue I bought when it came out. What the hell was that? I live in Bakersfield and like Merle and Buck and used to love Costello’s Armed Forces. One of my favorites from that period of my life. That blues cd sounds cool. Not a fan of white guys trying to do straight up blues either. Listen to the masters, why bother with imposters?
The piece I'd review is the NAD 3020, my first hi-fi amp. A true Giant killer, it was so smooth, clear, and powerful and was only limited by the quality of the speakers.
Every time I briefly view the videos on this channel you seemed to be bowled over(a form of promotion for this equipment?) by all the equipment you showed on your videos. Rather than telling us what are the names of the equipment you don't like maybe you should tell us approximately what is the percentage of equipment that goes through your house/demo room that you DO NOT like. My guess would be less than 10%. You see technology(includes design tools and high-quality silicon chipsets and more educated technical and design personnel and etc) nowadays allows the manufacturers to design easily and quickly and bring this equipment to the market at comparatively cheaper prices. Tell me I am wrong.
Reeeeeeee wrong think🤣
He's right, a 3-way for that kind of money is pretty amazing...
I wish they put them in nice looking cabinets for people who are willing to pay for them. Of course they'd cost more, but real wood just makes everything in the room feel so much nicer, at least for me it does.
2 years later, they went up in price twice. Now $899 :-( But everything has gone up in terms of supplies. I guess I'll just have to save that $200 elsewhere lol.
@@CeeStyleDj And now ten months later after your post they were selling them for $499 two days ago (11/26/23) but it now appears they sold out quickly and are likely gone forever as their new line will supposedly be available sometime in January. I really wanted the T1+ to be paired with my Emo C1+ CC and Emo BasX A3 amp but they hadn't been available for quite a few months so I decided to get the B2+ around three months ago while they were still available for $359. I'm really enjoying them but in the back of my mind I know I missed out on the pair of three-way speakers that I've been wanting for well over a year.
Emotiva can't be bought in Holland. It looks very good. Seems like lots of value for the money.
They are only sold directly through Emotiva.
Or you could pair the Denon with pioneer fs52 floorstanding for half the price of the emotivas.
Perfect
I usually am impartial to your shirts, but this one slaps. Bravo.
I would buy from Emotiva but they don't answer my emails. So....
@hifi trucker
Their loss. And that sure doesn't leave a good impression in terms of if you ever needed after-sales tech support or warranty support, since they don't even respond to potential buyer's emails!
I guess that's how they can offer the relatively good performance at "budget pricing". Something's gotta give.
I never noticed your video being grainy before.
Steve, what speaker cable did you use for your review ? Cheers, Rob, uk
Nordost.
Considering these or Klipsch RP-5000f for home theater/music setup. Any suggestions?
Which one did to go with? I'm undecided between Klipsch's and Emotiva right now...
@@i1pro went with the rp-5000f. They are pretty good, but wish I would have gone with the larger woofers. I will probably try something else in the future.
But can it boogie?
The T1+ require 75W-350W power per channel and have 88dB sensitivity, and the PMA 600Ne barely makes 70W, not sure the Denon produces enough power to drive them.
I wish you could test the New Emotiva T2: plus. $699. Hope you try it. 👍
Steve.... my man... what the hell are you listening to? I pulled up atomic bomb and you have to be smoking some really great shit to like this.
Good day sir
If I listen to mostly old school rap and female singers, would I be better going with this or the B1+ with a subwoofer? Plan on pairing with a Yamaha A-S501
I've got the Denon PMA 600NE and the matching CD player (what a great CD player!) running through a set of OLD KEF Q50's and they sound very muddy to me. Except for the price difference would you recommend this Emotive T1's or.... I'm leaning towards the KEF LS50 Metas with perhaps a sub-woofer? I'm getting old and my hearing isn't what it used to be - so I'm leaning towards the KEF's. I'm a hundred miles or more from any audio showroom & got to hear the LS50's by chance yesterday (very bright - awesome). I know the KEFs + subwoofer would be more money but just curious as to your opinion between these two.
What's great now about to purchase the XPA-DR3 or XPA-3 difficult decision, anyway Emotiva giving 30% off next purchase, therefore purchasing the amp get these for next to nothing.
Bi-Wire? Is this Two Pairs of Wires connected at the 4 terminals of the Speaker, AND THEN 2 Wires on Each Amp Terminal? PLUS: how are the Four Wires routed (dressed?) on the way to the speakers? This may create capacitance and/or inductance between all those wires! AND some degree of Grounding touching the floor (the insulators for Each wire allow some degree of leakage for grounding with the floor).
For these reasons, I prefer a Single Pair of wires to each speaker...Not bi-wire.
Maybe the rest of Elvis Costello's 'Almost Blue' is great (I haven't heard it yet), but he never should have tried the song 'Almost Blue'. He just can't compare to Chet Baker.
I've accidentally stumbled across the 600ne and I'm wondering if it's the gem in the current range. I chatted to Denon a few days ago, the 900hne and the 1700ne are the latest next tiers, replacing the 800 and 1600. The 600 shares more dna with the former pair.
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Good morning from Singapore.. I am happy with my Thiel cs22, jolida and rega planar, Snell type D and Denon pma800ne , marantz CD player and my audio technica 120. Oooops one more gear made in China tube amplifier hooked to TDL rtl1 special edition bookshelf rtl1....really really happy with it...
How would you describe those cheap $200-350 Chinese tube amps compared to this amp?
If you had to have one amp, what would it be?
Pure Bliss with this gear....and absolutely no foo foo wires anywhere! What sorcery can this be!! Either Steve is being mendacious or schmancy-pants wires are bovine excrement.
I wanted the T2+ reviewed. 😒
Is the extra money worth it at about $300 more?🤑
It may depend on your room size. I asked that question of one of the designers of the original Emotiva T1/T2 series. He said my room size (2,800 cu ft) should work better with the T2. He also felt the T2 crossover was better, just remember he was talking about the T2, not the T2+. The current iteration seems to have better xovers throughout the series.
Thank you Marvin. That is the same size as my room.
Hello Steve, what speaker in your opinion is equivalent to a PSB silver i, but possibly sounds better. And being 4 ohm , suggestions on powering the PSB. Thanks
Hey Steve,
What is your opinion concerning Polk tower speakers. You never about Polk speakers. Are they that bad?
Awesome review, Steve, thank you so much! I need some advice, in your opinion, do the Emos match well with a Yamaha AS 701 amplifier? Subscribers' opinions are appreciated, as well. Thank you all!
Did the Nordost cables cost more than the amp and speakers put together? Also, there are no dinosaurs in Avatar, huge extraterrestrial creatures for sure, but they are nor dinosaurs. Godzilla and Rodan are not a dinosaurs either. Otherwise, good review of a system affordable by mere mortals, such as I.
Steve is this going to be your 2020 speaker of the year? I need to know now! 😄🤑💰😐
Your story of Costello reminds me of ween's country music album. I really hated it when I bought it expecting it to be like mutilated lips. Some of the songs were ok kinda listening to it now.
Can't find the Denon PMA-600NE anywhere. Am I missing it somewhere?
You call this a review,at least know about the company ,of course it's the same tweeter they are 4 ohms which you don't mention among other things.Get it together steve your slipping!!
Hey Steve, do you always test your speakers using CDs? Never LPs- Vinyl?
Another word salad of nothing. Bi-wiring does nothing, don't be dumb.
I have the PMA 1600NE. The big brother. Excellent high current amplifier that doubles down from 8 ohms to 4 ohms. The 600NE is quite good too.
I really like everything I hear about this speaker pair, but I just can't get over the batman esthetic. Also not sure that if you're going for a plain speaker pair in this range if the tekton lore reference isnt the better way. Dont know though.
Emotiva B1+ bookshelf show unavailable..Bummer.
+1 on Revenant sound track. One of my absolute faves.
Hi steve. May i ask what do you think about the marantz pm 8006? Thank you.
The T1’s are now $1200/pair 😕
Airmotiv T1+ Loudspeaker Pair
Three-Way Floorstanding Tower Loudspeakers
Regular price
$899.00
I have the T-Zero speakers as I'm just dipping my toe into some better equipment. I also have a Denon home theater receiver that I just recently bought. I'm super impressed with those speakers for only $399. I've been doing a lot of listening at Best Buy and other places like that, I know I'll get much criticism for that from this crowd haha! But I got to say these Emotiva speakers sound way better than just about anything I listen to their that was costing in the thousand-dollar range.
I have an ancient Denon PMA 500 which I used to use with a VCR for a 2 Channel theatre experience (Repo man, Wild at heart, Blue velvet...) and also to drive a pair of 12” SAE speakers. I’ll have to audition the PMA 600ne.
Steve. Your the Scotty if audiophile. 🤣
I can't say anything about the sound - BUT assume this is somewhere You look at it every day....( blah +) I'll go with my Cambridge 100 w ch receiver ( silver ) and KEF Q 350 speakers - I put real Oak veneer on them, $50. for a 1 ft by 8 ft sheet of pre glued veneer, fit perfect, 3 inches left over. looks real real good. only question, how long will the veneer stick to original vinyl ?
but that system is less than $ 1200., sounds / LOOKS great to me - say E.Garanca and A. Netrebko, Opera pure excel. singers, in PCM ( SACD ?) stereo blue ray. Rock, that's all distortion anyway, deliberate overloaded Marshalls or whatever.
PS. You do a real good job with ' real' / affordable equipment, this review being an example. Not many actually have $ 10 thou t'tables, thou some do go ' all out'. no problem to those that do, to me it's like guys buying $20 thou bass boats or M'cycles.
I have the CA CXR 200.... definitely "audiophile " equipment. Not great for HT but I didn't buy it for that. I'm running Jamo concert series and holy crap they sound fantastic and no love. My step up will be Magnepan 1.7i driven by my citation 7.1. I feel your love of the CA....
Not sure whether to buy an emotiva or a Klipsch pair. I would normally go with the Emotiva Because it's a three way but my amplifier is the elac ea101eq-g which is not so powerful. I've heard Klipsch's are very easy to drive. That's why I can't decide.
Emotiva t2+ vs Klipsch RP-8000f ?
Emotiva t1+ vs Klipsch RP-6000f ?
Which one is better?
The emotivas are 4 ohm so uf you habe a good amplifier it will push moe power at 4 ohms, so the Emotivas will play louder if your amp can handle 4 ohms. My Denon AVR-X3300 will run 4ohms but it reduces power. I have an Emotiva BasX 7 channel amp and pushes quite a bit more power at 4 ohms (125 watts) than at 8 ohms (90 watts). I personally love my Emotiva T2+ towers. When at ear level I have to keep checking to make sure my center channel isn't on because it sounds like it is. Very good imaging and soundstage. For the price, detail, and 5 year warranty, I'd go emotiva over Klipsch. Not bashing klipsch by any means but in my opinion the emotivas sound better and arent fatiguing at higher volumes. You really cant beat Emotivas for the price, and I'd bet youd have a hard time finding speakers twice that price that can match them. I have the C2+, T2+, E1+ surrounds and Vaultas for Atmos driven by their basX A7 amp connected to my Denon AVR-X3300 amd two SVS PB2000 subs. Sounds simply amazing.
Great review. Topicality heart of the matter. BTW. Would you suggest elevating these speakers?
compare with kipsch 600 ? same cost.
Hello Steve!!! Is there any chance you'd make a review on the wharfedale diamond 330 towers??
Is the Denon amp HDMI capable?
its these tweeter as same as martinlogan tweeter?
where's cynthia? i wish to propose to her
do you think they are better than Goldenear ?
I can see it now...”This is why my Bose Lifestyle 25 system is the best audiophile experience you can possibly have”
How about something on all cables/speakers
I felt much the same re Costello's country music diversion though 'Good year for the roses' charted well in the UK at the time. Not sure how I missed the William Onyeabor album?
Just received the DC offset CMX-2. I must say it is a must have for any system. No more buzz through speakers. Sound
improvement is very noticeable.
I still have Nordost biwire . Can these speakers be used for home theater use or music only ?
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