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7:00 I agree. When you say that, I immediately think about BEOLAB. I also think about live sound, pretty mix every single speaker now has dsp. Many of these speakers have great bones, but they get significantly better performance with dsp. Feels like we are hashing the Bose-McIntosh debate again.

Screw all the gate keepers. Closed minds are destined to desintigrate.

Good morning Andrew and Kristi! What is your choice out of these 2 subwoofer. Dynaudio 18s dual 9.5" or the Kef KC92 My budget is $2,000 for a subwoofer. Would you recommend anything different.??

If you like Danish High End .. try to look at Steinway Lyngdorf, Gryphon and Peak Consult…

For les than 1500 $you could get cambridge cxa61 + wiim mini + a pair of q acoustics speakers with stands .that s what I would buy

Hi, i heard the Evo yesterday in Utrecht. Different kind of Music we shoose. It sounds good, online What i missed was a little more kick or pounding bass. The settings already was set on “extra bass” and stil it didnt really felt what i wanted. I have a small Teufel 360. That kicks a better base and have online one small bass driver. For the rest no bad comments About this beauty!

I must admit that Soundbars have come on a long way since they first came out, My first experience with flat-screen TVs that sound was terrible so I grabbed some Edifier speakers to help my TV out, as back then soundbars looked terrible and sounded just as bad. My main hifi is a two-channel tube amp & Wharfedale Linton set, which works great. Years later I bought a Samsung "The Frame" TV and I put it on the wall, but my Edifier Speakers would not work (Bluetooth only but the delay was terrible) so I got a Samsung Frame Soundbar with sub to help the TV out and much to my surprise it sounds ok and while it can't hold a candle to my current setup its a lot better than the early stuff I had heard in the past and better than the Edifier Speakers. Times are changing. I remember having a good long look at the Naim Muso a few years back as an all-in-one system but I still own a turntable which I love.

In my opinion, ALL and ANY piece of eqiopment is worth a look. Some of your viewers need to understand that here in Europe, our houses are often TINY, and therefore, having a full range of separates with big, floorstanding speakers, just isn't physically possible! I heard a friend's microsystem a while ago, and they took me up on my advice to upgrade the speakers (I think they got Wharfy Diamond 9.1) and...wow. The difference! Proof that a budget microsystem with decent speakers CAN deliver. As for soundbars, I heard the EVO (albeit in a showroom) and was surprised how good it sounded.

I would CA to make a £300-£500 soundbar

Gotta love hi fi or home theatre at its best “ what ever one thinks is best” but I enjoy just listening and watching on what ever I can afford and I have been around a long time and saw and heard just about everything one could imagine but right now it is fun and enjoyable.

Separates are better for a repairability/replaceability standpoint. That’s why I steer away from products like this. Nothing to do with audiophile ignorance. You mentioned the Wiim amp but not the powernode EDGE for an inexpensive stereo amp/streamer. Does the edge have the same limitations as the wiim? Sometimes watts aren’t the same.

You want warmth ? use the preamp outputs and connect them to 7 MC75 tube amps. As an added bonus , enjoy the thermionic radiation emitted by the Russian tubes.

You gotta keep 'em separated.

I understand what you were saying Definitive Technology tweeter. I had bridged my nr696 Onkyo receiver to the DM40. Now they are alive. I had to turn down the treble finally. After a decent break in period as well. The tweeter had come alive.

I am all for being open-minded and open to new products but imho my concern with this product and the review is that it has a very narrow customer focus, i.e. the ones that don't have 5-6 feet to place an equivalent powered pair of bookshelf speakers. Dont doubt its a great product but in practice applicable to a very few people even Europeans

Liisong has the same speakers for 2 grand.

lol! 👍

so I can't experience Hi-Fi soundstage, cause I don't have a huge theatre room :(

What’s acceptable vs isn’t…. As with all things it is in the eye of the beholder. As a former audiophile-lite person who had all the equipment, I can easily understand the spectrum of wants, needs and desires with the listening experience. Personally, as I’ve aged I’ve watched the tech get better and better to the point of blurring the lines of good vs bad. I now live close to a less is more philosophy and being able to go from 5-10 pieces of equipment to 1 or 2 is innately attractive to me. Now add in a personal minimum quality level…. Im sold. Do I still appreciate seeing a traditional setup, yep. But I more prefer not seeing all the equipment while being surrounded by quality sound that I can simply enjoy.

Ear wax and jaw position can make a big difference in what you hear fact....

I don't know what doctors he was talking to but believe me when I tell you there's nothing wrong with my hearing and I'm an old fart and my mom is even older and she can still hear things like she did when she was back in her teens or maybe it's just genetics

I think a lot of the elitists in this hobby don't realise that these all in one systems could be a gateway for people to discover the wonders of music played back at a higher level and just might lead them to explore even better experiences up the chain, which just might keep this niche hobby alive for years to come.

I have two sonos play 5s in stereo pair with a turntable attached they sound amazing is it classed as hi fi I think so it compares to my friends £1800 set up and some genres sound better on my 5s 🎵🎶🎵🎶

Looks like it would make a lovely coffee table, with the addition of some short legs 😁😉

One of my favourite bits of audio gear is the JBL Onbeat Xtreme 😮 At one point I had that in the centre of my traditional audio setup. I think at the time i had some vintage Sansui speakers and another smaller pair of something set up, so using the A and B of my amp (AU417) On more than one occasion I had friends come over while i was playing the JBL and think I was playing the larger stereo because it sounded so large. I must get it out again 😉👍

Just found this vid! Recently got a pair of JBL Drive core CMS amps for very very cheap. Not sure if it’s the same drive core tech, googling seems to say so, but I agree, it has tremendous power and that low end is tight and punchy. Currently using as Amps from my Marantz SR8015 pre amp mode.

Future sustainability demands we use less and think smaller. Smaller can still bring good sound. 🙂And if it's efficient win win. Ask anyone who's ever moved how much easier moving an Evo would be.

Arguing that an all in one can’t be hifi still? Well. . . I guess McIntosh - yes THAT McIntosh is no longer hifi, because they have an all in one, and I’d love to hear Andrew and Kristi’s opinion on that piece of kit. I wonder if it’s really worth the 3k asking price - which for McIntosh is actually affordable (relatively speaking, of course!)

As an audiophile it's a neverending journey of lusting after something better. It's tough, it's soulcrushing, feels like nothing is ever good enough. And needless to say those "holy grail" speakers cost tens of thousands + you need super expensive amplifiers to match these. But if an music fan can find a state of mind that he/she can enjoy what he can afford - then i'd say he has achieved perfection. I have a set of pioneer floor speakers from 1988, proper wooden box and no cheap plastic sh*t. Fairly cheap kenwood amp and eltax floorspeakers in the rear. +DIY bix box subwoofer. All together ~800 dollars. And i think all these together sound wonderful (yes, i have spent a lot of time adjusting amplifier, done bunch of room treatment and figured out perfect placement for speakers to achieve it) , i absolutely love my livingroom setup. So enjoy what you can afford!

As a Canadian, today is the beginning of my boycott of all USA businesses and Made in the USA products for many years to come. Many fellow Canadians are thinking the same way. I even cancelled my trip to the USA for this weekend, not spending a dime in the USA if I can help it. We have been betrayed by Trump's 25% Tariff on Canada. Shame on the USA for stabbing your strongest Ally and partner in the back. So SAD !

As for me, acknowledging most of the time vinyl sound quality is lower than a well mastered CD (DDD), when you listen music in a way that makes you do it A side, next B side in a row with all these inconvenients, the connection shows up because you have listened the music artwork the right order it is was thought of by the artist. Non stop, no chops, no new songs proposals, no tracklist designed for your better user experience. The way it was conceived right here in your hi-fi.

I don't believe that Andrew and Kristi themselves love to have 7 or 9 speaker system in their living room.

Kristi is out of the closet, which appears to be where she listened to the Evo One 😈 Seriously, my only objection to a product I've never heard is stereo separation. If anything, I'm currently fixated on the Bravia Theatre Quad - the notion of being able to pjut the speakers anywhere in the room blows my tiny mind. Ask Revel or Focal to pull that rabbit out of a hat.

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can you use these as a front left and right speaker with a soundbar as the center?

I have all first gen. Rp280f fronts rp404c i think for center, rp502s for surround plus a pair of 15" hsu mk subs. Getting the onlyo rz50 receiver next then some rp160m for heights and rp500m or 600m for surround backs. Habe to get a 2 channel emotiva external amp. Then getting the emotiva 3 channel for the fronts and center. Slow and steady.

The Evo One is poking fun at the (I Listen To My Equipment) crowd. And they aren’t taking it well

Great upload 👌👌👌👌👌

Great video guys. Don’t disagree with any of this. I would just add that a lot of us audio nerds with components and amps and speakers, are also the customers of products like these for other room use cases. We aren’t all dinosaurs who hate anything new tech or different approaches. I have a 2 ch “hifi”, an 11 ch home theater, an office set up with a streaming integrated and bookshelves with a sub, a streamer with wireless powered speakers in a workout room, a streamer amp for outdoor speakers, and 2 sound bars for TVs. I think the people buying Cambridge Audio Units like this are often audio people who have other systems and buy something this for a kitchen or parlor etc. People who are new to audio don’t know Cambridge or Marantz or Focal, they are buying Sony, Samsung, etc. My 2 cents. Just don’t want to be lumped in with curmudgeons just because I do invest a lot in traditional set ups. Cheers to you both, loved the video and super excited for Sunday!

Hi! I want to know how it compare with the jbl l75ms aparently they are for the same use but with a very different combination of drivers. Thanks im very interesting in the jbl for configuration, quality, capacity and look

Marantaz had a all in one the ms7000 in the 2000s. Amazing speaker with great vocals and classical genre tuning. Amazing bass too overall sound is better than its contemporary competitors the beosound 8, b and w zepplin, and NAD Viso 1/AP

Ive bought the elac after watching several reviews, paired with the marantz stereo 70s its soo good, better that the monitor audio bronze or even the super denton ive listened to while testing before buying, the only one that bested it was lumina2 in terms of detail and clarity, but it differs from your review a bit, where the lumina 2 lacks the low end that the elac could bring, and i dont think i need a sub for the elac while for the lumina 2 its mandarory for me atleast, but Andrew is right, hear it first before buying. Thanks for “hooking” me up with these speakers sir!

The conversation in the first segment of the video just further reminds me of why I like this channel, it's so refreshing to hear the breadth of what you enjoy. Also, Kristi adds so much to this channeI! I can understand why you split her commentary off into unplugged but mostly I miss it. The story of her experience in music over her life had a lot of parallels to my own and I really appreciated that

Several years back - actually more like 15 - I had all the equipment: Sony Home theater amp, CD, DVD, Cambridge Audio Speakers and center channel, and in-celing surrounds. Also a Logitech remote that programs it all. Sounded very good. Well, except when the Logitech decided to suddenly not work (but another story). But I saw Sonos equipment at Best Buy and saw sparkles. I bought the sound bar, sub, and surrounds. I hoped to simplify. Alas, when I hooked it up, really didn't impress me at all. Plus it was a good bit more expensive than my cobbled system. So I took it all back. FF to today; I now have a Sonos Arc (not Ultra) and Sub Gen 3 in my living area, and Bluesound Powernode and Focal 826 speakers (purchased first). Initially, I commented I'd have been ok with the Sonos system as my main, but since realized the BS / Focal is more enjoyable for music.

Cheers peeps, I was your 500th like :D

$30K just to save some shelf space? I’m good with discs.

Sooooooo, are you saying that Boom Boxes are coming back? I am so glad I still have my leisure suits from the 70’s 😳

Hi you two. Am wondering, searching for powered wireless speakers for both music and tv thru streaming Apple TV at level 60 to 70 db max. Are there speakers that sound better at these lower levels?

I am interested in the QM 8- in your prior reviews you mention that Samsung Q sypm. paired with the Q990D (which I already purchased based on your review) was amazing - will I loose much pairing the QM 8 to the Q990D?