![]() ![]() endowed with the ability to convey attack and pitch far lower into the bass than its visible driver would suggest. This is an ultra-dynamic speaker of impeccable articulation, i.e. But while the Ref9s were playing, my first notions of the "more power is welcome" credo were in full evidence. I definitely had to return to the Patek SEs to hopefully eliminate this narrow range of stridency. Altering toe-in didn't fully address it either as the energy was clearly in the room and audible even way off-axis (just not as focused then as in the seat). ![]() Dialing in a falling tweeter response naturally didn't address the band handled by the mid/woofers but merely minimized the overtone splash surrounding the fundamentals. Plucked strings and fiery singers gain a degree of incisiveness that, with the wrong amplifier, can err on the side of excess energy. If the recording contains heat in this band, the Tubulous will parlay it. It's either an amplitude plateau or turbo-charged lower treble dynamics. If I had to guess, I'd even propose that the power response of this band is elevated over a conventional 1" tweeter operating below 2K. ![]() This review page is supported in part by the sponsor whose ad is displayed aboveīecause the 6.5" woofers are active to 4.5K and beyond (after all, a 2nd-order network isn't a brickwall filter), there seems to be a certain amount of beaming in the lower treble.
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