Doenerkunde
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In Germany Canton seems to be the number one classic hifi brand in big retail stores. If the average Joe goes to a big consumer electronics retail store (like Media Markt or Saturn) to buy a classic stereo setup there is a big chance that he will leave with a pair of Canton (followed up by Heco and Elac and maybe Magnat).
Germany is a nation of renters with a vast majority of listening spaces falling in the 150 to 350 sqft category with brick walls and neighbors close by. So voicing might indeed have something to do with the target audience. E.g. my Elac DBR62 (in tandem with my room) produce a solid 8dB or so spike at 55hz at my listening position in my 200sqft listening space and most people don´t use EQ.
Overall: Good to very good directivity, good to very good linearity with limited extension, bothersome THD spike at high listening levels. Overall good performance and I am somewhat baffled by the mediocre poll results, but I guess expectations seem to be anchored around the holy trinity of Genelec, Neumann and Revel.
EDIT: The last sentence was unneccessarily hostile. I fall in the "fine" category, but there are valid reasons to evaluate things different.
Germany is a nation of renters with a vast majority of listening spaces falling in the 150 to 350 sqft category with brick walls and neighbors close by. So voicing might indeed have something to do with the target audience. E.g. my Elac DBR62 (in tandem with my room) produce a solid 8dB or so spike at 55hz at my listening position in my 200sqft listening space and most people don´t use EQ.
Overall: Good to very good directivity, good to very good linearity with limited extension, bothersome THD spike at high listening levels. Overall good performance and I am somewhat baffled by the mediocre poll results, but I guess expectations seem to be anchored around the holy trinity of Genelec, Neumann and Revel.
EDIT: The last sentence was unneccessarily hostile. I fall in the "fine" category, but there are valid reasons to evaluate things different.
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