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RE: FE206es-r Listening Impressions

Posted by Rick B (A) on August 23, 2007 at 07:37:45

In Reply to: FE206es-r Listening Impressions posted by margaritafred on August 23, 2007 at 05:56:16:

Yeah,

It never ceases to amaze me how long it takes single drivers to fully break in...it took the Lowther DX-55's in my Third Rethms way over a year of constant use, break-in tracks, and tweaking...the little Fostex FE-103E's in my BD type TQWP about the same...but it has taken an inordinate amount of time for the Loth-X Amazes to get to the point to where they "Amaze" me....

When I first got them 5 years ago or so, I played the heck out of them out in the garage, face to face, with FM interstation noise, for over 200 hours...then brought them into the house and played them for weeks...well, they were OK, but nothing really special...

So, I played with them off and on over the past several years, leaving them in the system for a month or so, with as much time on them as possible, but never really "got" the point of them...

Until just recently, that is.....

I decided to put them into the system back in the early spring and just let them run....I use the system for both TV and audio so they get used quite a bit...

"Wow, where did that detail come from?" I asked myself when I sat down and listened to them earlier this week...listening to familiar albums that I have played over and over greeted me with new sounds and details that had previously been buried...there's still no bass, that's augmented by two subs, but everything else they do is finally what I think the little speakers are capable of doing.

I feel like the drivers now have a lot of time, how much would only be a guess, but I usually leave the stereo playing on FM during the day when I am not home...no, I don't think they get the "texture" quite as well as the Lowthers, but maybe in another six months, who knows?

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