Hey all,
Just wanted to let you know that I am now a proud and fortunate owner of some brand new lite cherry loreleis. As my wife has commented they are a beautiful piece of furniture to look at. In my opinion that is secondary to the important issue SOUND. Let me tell you everything you have heard or read is absolutely correct these speakers are just mind-boggling especially being of a 2 way design. I previously had a pair of MA Gold ref 60's (2 woofers,1 midrange,1 tweeter design) not even close, I now have more detail, microdetail that was missing with the MA's is now brilliantly in abundance with the loreleis. I thought I had great bass before I now have visceral bass I can feel in my chest, midrange is supposedly the MA's strong point not even close, the loreleis have much better emotional mids, female vocals are to die for.. they also exhibit endless highs the MA's sounded metallic.. Soundstage much wider, imaging about the same as the MA's. What these loreleis are doing is bringing you so much closer to the music, they also disappear in your listening room. The scary thing about all this is this is my impressions after only a few hours!! When I called Klaus to applaud him on his work he said wait until you get the cones and have broken in the crossovers at 200 hrs. I said "you have to be kidding these babies sound terrific right now." I guess I will have to post more impressions when they are at the break in point. So for now I will just sit back with my single malt and listen to Patricia Barber CAFE BLUE and Joni Mitchell BLUE cds.
