I'm glad you are enjoying them Ken... Keep them for a few weeks by all means. You're the one doing me the favor by breaking them in. I HATE having to break in speakers. Besides, it's not like I don't have another pair of speakers to listen to here
Of course I don't have my favorite DAC or amps anymore..........
I was impressed with the Mini 2's right out of the box. In the hour or so we listened before I had to take off, they were already starting to open up. The things I love about the Usher sound and specifically the alloy tweeter (I never thought the day would come that I like a mostly titanium tweeter... but that thing just flat out sings) are maintained in this speaker. Good balance to the sound. Detail and resolution is all there, just not cringe worthy like on some other designs. We were listening right around 89-90 decibels at the listening position. While loud, it wasn't blow you over. That's about as loud as I ever want to listen in any of my systems. At that volume level, the speaker was extremely controlled and clean. No compression whatsoever. While they don't have the same scale of presentation capabilities of a Be-20, they are pretty darn great for a normal sized room. Bass was surprisingly fleshed out for stiff woofer suspensions. That will get better after some play time. I think I'm going to like these in my room. I'm excited to find something that will fit my listening room space and sound like these do. While not the Be-20s, I get to enjoy some of their qualities in a much more better half approved package.... even though she hasn't technically seen them yet.... I'm working up to that
Yeah, even the dealer now has significant other approval factors to consider... first time in my life and I'm honestly not really happy about it... but I'm not without some capabilities to compromise I suppose...
Enjoy them Ken. I'm glad you're getting the chance to hear something else in your room to learn a bit more about what it's doing now that the panels are up and also to be able to compare and contrast the equipment itself... I'll bring the Belles stuff over once it gets some time on it and we can really have some fun swapping.... so when are you hosting the next get together?
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