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Folks,
Earlier this week I found myself back in Hamburg Germany.
As I might have mentioned somewhere on the other site, there's a great chain store called "Saturn" that sells electronics, software, etc. Think of BB with a much broader range of quality goods - and many times larger in size.
The last time I was there I spent some time listening to a pair of K-horns in their high-end demo room - compared to a variety of similar and higher priced speaker systems. I had the room to myself for at least an hour - with not even a salesperson to disturb me. I was literally swapping cables to choose the combo that I wanted to try out.
Well this year the room was still there but the lineup had changed. I still had the place to myself but this time I spent the time swapping cables between a big honkin' pair of Canton speakers and a pair of Dynaudio Contour S5.4s.
The pictures below were taken with my cheap cell phone. Unfortunately it did not properly resolve the card displaying the info for both speakers so I don't know the exact model number for the Cantons. I checked their web site and nothing there matches. They were not cheap: 10,000EUR each - versus 4,600 each for the Dyns.
I gotta say while the Cantons impressed the heck out of me (size has that effect!) the Dyns pretty much held their own - especially in the low bass. I'd take the Cantons if offered the choice (for free) but I doubt that I'd pay the difference if I had to. Well ok, if I had it kicking around, with nothing better to spend it on, then maybe I would.
Jeff
Earlier this week I found myself back in Hamburg Germany.
As I might have mentioned somewhere on the other site, there's a great chain store called "Saturn" that sells electronics, software, etc. Think of BB with a much broader range of quality goods - and many times larger in size.
The last time I was there I spent some time listening to a pair of K-horns in their high-end demo room - compared to a variety of similar and higher priced speaker systems. I had the room to myself for at least an hour - with not even a salesperson to disturb me. I was literally swapping cables to choose the combo that I wanted to try out.
Well this year the room was still there but the lineup had changed. I still had the place to myself but this time I spent the time swapping cables between a big honkin' pair of Canton speakers and a pair of Dynaudio Contour S5.4s.
The pictures below were taken with my cheap cell phone. Unfortunately it did not properly resolve the card displaying the info for both speakers so I don't know the exact model number for the Cantons. I checked their web site and nothing there matches. They were not cheap: 10,000EUR each - versus 4,600 each for the Dyns.
I gotta say while the Cantons impressed the heck out of me (size has that effect!) the Dyns pretty much held their own - especially in the low bass. I'd take the Cantons if offered the choice (for free) but I doubt that I'd pay the difference if I had to. Well ok, if I had it kicking around, with nothing better to spend it on, then maybe I would.
Jeff