Well, my kids and I were listening to "cheerleader" mostly them, but let me say there is a low note in the song that really show what the songtowers can do down deep. Unbelievable. My new amp sounds great with the salks. Happy owner. Had to share.
When my wife and I opened our NYC coffee shop in 2012, I knew I would be spending a lot more time working and less time at home with the HT2-TLs. I had Jim build us 4 Songbird surrounds for our sound system. These are paired to a 4 channel Adcom amp, and Audioquest Drangonfly USB DAC and a Linux server serving FLAC files[1] in the basement. Our space is 1600sf with the Songbirds mounted on wall brackets.
I was, and still am, astounded at how deep and unstrained these play at even the loudest settings with decent recordings. We routinely have employees and customers make it a point to remark at how good our speakers sound. Many of them are musicians, opera singers, music teachers and one soon to be recording engineer.
But the real fun is after 7pm when the customers are gone and the Salks are turned *way* up. I feel like I'm letting out 4 starving adolescent mongooses out of their cages. But they're also refined enough to easily hear differences between 16bit and 24 bit recordings.
If I only knew how good they would be I would have ordered the MTM versions instead.
[1] Most of our music is FLAC and all play lists freshly made, much like our pastries and espresso.
