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Originally posted by vandit yea a quick review on that would be great? would i need an amp to run those speakers?
sorry if this is a newbie question  |
I have had the Europas running for about 5 hours now. A couple of things. First, they are not the prettiest speakers in the world. I do not think they look to bad in my room, but when my wife gets home on Sunday, she might have some other thoughts. I'll just keep my fingers crossed on that. The breakin period on these speakers is about 200 hrs so i'm not sure how much they are going to change from what I am hearing now. I hope it is a lot. Right now they are not jaw dropping awsome as so many Europa owners describe them to be and I do not see any way they can blow away 5 and 6 thousand dollar speakers like Von Schweikert VR-4s or Dynaudio Contour 3.4s like the designer claims. One thing I can tell right away, these speakers are highly musical and emotional invloving. However, they are a little different to what I am use to which is The American Accoustic Development E-48s which were in my room before the Europas. The AADs are very detailed with some slam to go with it, but they were not very involving if you will and were fatiguing too. They Europas do have good detail, just not the hyper detail of the AADs. Finally, the Europas are not doing a very good job of imaging. You can tell the sound is coming right from the speakers. To answer your question, the Europas are supposed to work well with most electoncis, they are not picky. I am running mine on a Rotel 1065 reciever. If you have a reciever or an amp that can do 100 watts, you should be fine. I will move them to my main system where I have better components like the ASL Twin Head MK II for a preamp and an Anthem MCA 2 for a power amp to see how they do.