use CC and translate to english. Timeline 17:37. But I wont judge them being built in Czech, or even China or Vietnam. Main thing is how good the engineering. Also I have huge respect that they use wooden boxes to transport the components from Czech to Weilrod and these boxes goes back in the truck, Kudos for thinking about avoiding waste that way.
Regarding the woofers I clearly understand that they are connected to the same point in the crossover. But the positioning of them in a box can have different sound coming out of them. When you keep your ears close to them, you can easily notice the upper woofer is more boomy than the lower, I guess it has to do with more free floating situation since the lower woofer is closer to the base and that part is more rigid. I can be wrong too. Anyway, something is weird here on purpose or by lack of engineering. Anyway the finish on the Cantons are really good.
My 7K Cherry pair arrived yesterday. Listened them for about 4 hours (of course without any burn in time). It was impossible for me to hear any difference between the two woofers drivers even putting my ear close. You can't isolate it's sound from the rest of the speaker. If you heard a difference or evident noise I would assume that your tested unit had an evident manufacturing defect.
The mid bass hump was barely noticeable even if you concentrate on finding it. I will perform measurements and I will try to EQ them to make them "flawless" (on quotes because they basically already are). On everything else the sound was perfect and what amazing sound stage. The music seem to float on the air and the speakers completely disappear: I believed that nothing could surpass the sound scape of the Q Acoustics Concept 500. I was wrong! this speakers are clearly the best I have listen in my life. They are a lot better than the 9k bookshelfs. And to my ear easily surpassed the MA Platinum's which I liked very much.
I don't care about all the bullying that Kef's R line lovers throw to me, If you haven't heard this Cantons you know nothing! And that THD numbers at high output are all related to High-Q factor resonance, i.e. not audible at all. I hear with my ears not with overkill measurements techniques that try to isolate "state of the art" science numbers that you can't differentiate on real world. (Yes, I understand that this is ASR but you can't left outside that this products are made to be heard by humans not by measurement instruments. If you can barely hear a SNR of 80db why it would be important for a buyer to have a 140db SNR product? Just for reference. The noise floor of a typical listening room is about 40-45 dB. That alone masks any significant THD number a properly made speaker, like this one, could possibly have.
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