J'en ai acheté une paire pour voir à quoi ça ressemble... Ils sont arrivés hier...
Vite installé, connecté en RCA à un Topping DX 3 Pro et en BT à un iPhone (ne me frappez pas !) : j'en ai écouté quelques extraits. Ils étaient très froids hors de la boîte, alors je me suis arrêté et j'ai attendu qu'ils se réchauffent dans la maison.
Le résultat est bon, le son est propre, étendu en fréquences vers le bas et vers le haut... Je trouve ce Kali IN 8 curieusement un peu directif, mais je n'étais pas bien installé et eux non plus.
Aujourd'hui, je commence à les utiliser plus sérieusement : je sors un préampli analogique Harman Kardon 1.1 avec sorties XLR, je les configure sérieusement et j'écoute. Mais on voit déjà que ce qui en ressort est propre, avec de beaux timbres et des plans sonores bien superposés.
Pour 778 euros la paire livrée à domicile... c'est impressionnant...
I answer myself. so I installed the kali in 8 v2 correctly... but with the tweeter at the bottom and the woofer at the top to have them at the level of my ears when I'm slumped in my chair.
I stored the unused harman kardon 1.0 signature preamp for a long time: it had a mains hum and I hear its mains power buzzing when I put my ear to the box... Under warranty, it had been replaced because it was burnt out. ..
And so I put a TACT 2.2 (Corrections used in By Pass). I installed the Topping drivers... and I drive as a youth... Not yet installed CD players with coaxial output. But I'm going to take one out of a box...
Three days of varied listening, iTunes, Audirvana and Qobuz mainly classical music, some of which I have known very well for a long time and which I listen to in my living room on large Focal-Divatech MC 210 prime time monitors which are really excellent... let's say that these Kali IN 8 V2s are absolutely remarkable: going from large passives to small actives, there is no frustration.
The Kali IN 8 are clear, precise in stereo reproduction, the timbres reproduced are varied, no harshness, no clinical character. Outstanding. If the bass is relatively discreet, it is clear and sometimes surprising when there is actually some in the recording. If reliability is a must: this speaker is an incredible deal.
I wanted to buy Genelec 8841 or 8851... and I wanted to try the Kali to see what they did after reading the BE here and on Erin and reading the comments here from the guys who own them alongside the Genelec... even if that means I'm giving them to my nephew who has a small apartment and who likes rock... but I'm scratching my head... the Genelecs are undoubtedly better, the measurements say so, but... the Kali IN8 V2 are so good that. ..
I think I'm going to buy 2 small Kali subwoofers, but its two side speakers make placement complicated in a room... But I have an old Yamaha subwoofer lying around (YST SW 200). I'm going to try it with it to see... So I'm going to remove the microphone, the laptop under XP kept to operate the TACT and integrate this subwoofer thanks to the active filter of the Tact and equalize everything.. (Nothing but Thinking about it gives me a headache because the ergonomics of the Tact are not ideal... and it hasn't been used for 10 years!) In any case, its ADC seemed transparent to me. ..