Hi Kenreau,
Thanks for the shout-out. I remember receiving a welcome PM from you when I joined AC.
Kurt and his minions at Echo are some of the best in the business, knowledgeable, understated, and polite.
No high pressure sales tactics. Never disses another dealer or product. Just the truth.
That Mitchell setup does look very nice. Dunno if it would better my SOTA Sapphire though.
The quads are almost perfect...until you play some large symphonic music or a really big complex piece. For chamber, small ensemble, jazz quartet/sextet, solo acoustic and/or voice, just about any simple form of music they simply can't be beat. Nothing in my experience sounds and natural and musical as they do. Maybe the big 2905's can do it but I've not read this yet. I've also not heard any Acoustats, SoundLabs, or larger Martin-Logans so they may be able to do justice to the big orchestral work I love.
My first taste of 'stats was actually a Stax SR-40/SRD-4 kit my folks bought me for Christmas my senior year in HS. I hooked them up to an early NAD integrated and was in sonic heaven. My Mom would literally have to come drag me away to get any chores done.
I wore the new clean out of those Stax and finally had to throw them away in about 1984/5. I am planning on acquiring a newer set in the future.
Hopefully I'll get the SME installed this weekend, although part of me wishes I were camping instead.
Take care folks,
JakeJ
