Testing indicates near-perfect reproduction from 35 Hz to about 19,000 as another reviewer indicated. My tastes range from jazz to classical to speed and thrash metal to classic rock, industrial and hip-rock. Slayer's "God Hates Us All" is completely outrageous to listen to on these speakers - the clarity of this totally brutal sonic monolith of an album is an amazing listen. Pink Floyd's Dark Side and Symphonica albums shine on these speakers. Every last outrageous note was crystal clear without being strident, every bass line was deep and firm and strong, but not a hint of dissonance did I detect, in either the sound-stage or from the cabinets themselves. Of course, the ususal tweaking your EQ for different recording/production styles is necessary, but that is to be taken for granted.įor sound quality benchmarking, I primarily (but by no means exclusively) relied on Frank Zappa's Rykodisc recordings, as they are of excellent production quality - fantastic mastering job on those albums.
These speakers have taken every type of music I have given them and reproduced it faithfully, without any loss of detail, and without any deterioration in sound-stage. You must NOT submit infantile reviews damning a product you simply have NOT listened to - if you had really listened to these speakers with half-way decent equipment (and as you can see from my system list below, this does not have to be very expensive equipment either), and a decent set-up, you would have no reason to complain at all. You MUST break the speakers in for a good solid 30 days to get the most natural sound quality from them. You MUST place them at least 18" from the wall on the rear, and 9" from the wall on the side. You MUST biwire them with GOOD quality, low-gauge speaker wire, not longer than 15'. But anyways, on to the Towers.Ĭambridge Tower II, biwired with 12-gauge Cambridge wire.įor best sound from these speakers, you MUST use an amp with at least 100 watts/channel. they are the most incredible speakers I have EVER heard. my uncle had them and knew I loved them (and knew I couldn't afford them either - $20,000/pair, yikes). I actually will be replacing this setup in the next year - I just inherited a pair of Sonus Faber Amati Homage. My usage is about 90% sound, 10% HT - which is mostly music anyways.Īs you can see, I have used (and still use) a relatively decent range of speakers. What ever happened to just eating great food without caring about what others think! I like the sound and thats all that matters to me. Some of these reviewers remind me of crazy gourmets who take their love of food to the point that they end up eating shrimp sauteed in a blueberry butter sauce tossed with angel hair pasta commenting how exotic it is, how well worth the price it is, while they try to gag the crap down they are supposedly enjoying. I have to ask you why you brought it home in the first place? You must have liked the way it sounded in the store did you not? For those of you who are the guru's out there and perform surgery on a speaker as soon as you get it home.
#CAMBRIDGE SOUNDWORKS TOWER FULL#
I think people forget you have to drive these speakers to realize their full potential. hooked them up to a quality Onkyo TXDS575 A/V reciever, and been very pleased with the results the past few months. I can claim to have taken these speakers out of the box. I am not going to claim to be a HI-FI Guru. In short, I have got to agree with the reviewer who said "who the heck takes a speaker out of the box rips it apart right away to study the guts only to return it without hooking it up". I have read these various reviews and there is quite a division here between those who love and those who hate.
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