On my system, those AMT tweeters sound pretty good. Don't think I would need a sub with these speakers if there was enough power. Thanks for the video.
Patreon member here. I just got my set of 6.2’s an hour ago. I got it based on the numerous Lyngdorf reviews and the 6.2 reviews (obviously!). BTW great reviews. Good info and entertaining as always. I have them hooked up to a Luxman 507z, I use a WIIM pro to a NAD M51 DAC. They replace my Canton 9.2 DC’s. My room is 15x15 and only mildly treated. Sound is exceptional. A large soundscape, open but precise. Non-fatiguing. Sound has heft. So far wonderful. Bass is deep and articulate. I was concerned my Luxman may not have the umph, but I have plenty of headroom left. The vertical off axis falls away pretty quickly, but for a dedicated listening room no issue. I also have some Thiel CS2.4, which are very accurate but tilt to brightness.
It's a bit like a KII design, but that's normal I guess given the Lyngdorf, Risbo and Putzeys link 🙂 Maybe I can change my Dynaudio Special 40 wish to a RA Clarity 6.2 wish ...
Hej Morten, Great work. Super entertaining AND informative. Do you think these beasts would be driven well with the old TDAI-2170, 170 watts into 4 Ohms? At first I was put off by their utilitarian design, but after watching your video, I'm quite intrigued!
The other speaker that uses similar tech costs 20.000€...i considered buying that speaker so having the same or similar components in a 4.000€ pair of speakers is crazy cheap to me...
@Arthax83 everything is relative. They are cheap in comparison with similar tech in other speakers. Like a Tesla Model S is still a lot of money, but if you are looking for extreme accelleration its "cheap" for the performance. When my wallet was lighter, I would buy used gear any day, and get so much for my money.
@@stjernholmreviews I agree with the relative statement. Our family economy is devided into cake pieces. For hifi stuff (speakers and amp/streamer), I have limited my self to 50k (sek). But we are about to buy a new house and there might be wiggle room (up!) in our hifi budget 😆 Love your stuff! 🤘🏻
AMT teeeters are used from the budget few hundred dollar speakers up but some ultra high end speakers uses planar ribbons like raidho and borressen. I like Wilson Audio Chronosonic they don’t use either and it’s at the top of the mountain with a few other speakers some say it’s still better than the best but it’s priced accordingly.
The A10 have the same kind of woofer. But being a closed box it cant achieve nearly as much bass. A driver in a bass reflex box is roughly equal to 3 such drivers in a closed box around the tuned frequency of the bass reflex. Wich is clearly shown in the comparison with the a10. Also in the bass reflex speakers the cone movement is alot less around the tuning frequency since tha port (or the passives) take over. Exactly at the tuned frequency the driver dont move hardly at all. This can be seen if playing a pure sine wave at that frequency. So a bass reflex speaker will help with intermodulation alot.
@magnusdanielsson2749 very true. But the Buchardts also use DSP, - meaning EQ and limiting in order to push it even further. It works great at low volume, where the can be linear to 25 Hz 😄.. Great if you live in a small room or apartment, and dont play that loud.. In the test, they are being pushed all the way, and the DSP is not "aware" of the frequency content..
@tangobodo977 I dont think there is such thing as "beating" another good speaker, as almost everything that makes up a great speaker to you will be subjective, right? The Radiant offers something very different that might or might not be more or less of what you like. The Epicon will sound more "laidback" maybe also a bit "fatter" in the midrange. It has the "Dali sound" a bit sweet, forgiving, cozy, yet a bit excited. Radiant is straight to the point, super clean, dry, presents music way more sculpted. But not as much a party girl as the Epicon. More accountant than party girl. (maybe there is also a party girl accountant somewhere, who knows? 🙂. Get a pair, listen in your room and see how you like it. Remember you can save all your setup and roomperfect stuff for the Epicons on the 1120, and make a new setup for the Clarity and switch between them when you compare. That way, you will know what beats what for you 🙂. Keep us posted about the experience!
@@andreibalcan7964 Yes, in the context of the tech used, currently selling around € 20.000! € 4.000 is naturally still a pile of dough , but value has to be judged in the right context. Agree?
@@andreibalcan7964 haha, same here but when you add up all parts, construction, development, distribution network, shipment,...this is not a bad deal. I can only confirm that Purifi drivers are something really special and they are worth the money. In a good design you only hear the music, no distortion. I´m now used to it but in the beginning I was confused comparing with other speakers 😅
@Tanner_o that is a very interesting question. I never liked their 1723 sound, but the new speakers looks very interesting, using some of the same sound philosophy as the Clarity. New generation speakers! Will consider testing them.
Love your work, its nice to see someone's with a sense of humour and a sense of style too. 👍 For a bass test play the Silverchair track - Israel son. The beginning baseline should test a speaker out.
Hi, what about AM 100 gold 6g with 8 inch bass VS clarity with 3 6,5 inch woofers…can you make a comparison? I was totaly in for AM 100 gold 6g…but after this review, I am not so sure any more…I need dep bass..
Great video. You're extremely entertaining. The vocal clarity selling point of this is surely only a selling point if it makes a significant difference at "normal" listening levels rather than the 90+ dB levels?
@c0mbat15 They're great at low levels too. The only reason we push them so loud is because they're so distortion-free, you hardly notice how loud you got. Thanks for watching the channel!
@jeanbeezy Thats a GREAT question. It is really a matter of what you like and want in a speaker. Watch out for part 2 where I move closer in on that thing. Both are insanely well designed speakers, so I would try them both with your gear and most importantly, your music and room! In the rough, - I would say that the MOFIs has a "sound", where the Clarity has not. I would prefer acoustic sensitive music on the Clarity over the MOFI for exsample. They are SOOO clean.
@@stjernholmreviews thank you for your answer. love the content and 2024 donation - such a nice move! finally joined the patreon yesterday. i guess im looking for a replacement (step up) for my s400mk2, and i thought the sourcepoint + sub 10 would be that, but now im seeing the claritys and im not sure anymore. i need good bass and a speaker that also excels at low listening volumes. but i think im just gonna give the claritys a try and send them back if they are not what im looking for. cheers.
@bengleason508 Great suggestion! Please expand a little on the idea. Are you thinking in relation to home cinema or playback optimisation possibilities for music listening at very low levels? or something else?
@@stjernholmreviews strictly for music listening. I am interested in topics such as do horns provide the most desirable attributes of listening at lower volumes. Are dipole speakers better than speakers in a box not necessarily at lower volumes but in the way sound travels and disturbing others? Is Class A amplification the best for low volume listening? What about Active speakers? What does DSP do to the sound when optimized for low volume listening. I believe there is a portion of your audience that rarely listens in the 80-90 db range (except for a audio shows). Thank you for your consideration.
@connorduke4619 I love that little Rubikore 2. It might be one of the best "traditional" dome tweeter based compact two ways out there. I just played around with it, Bi-amping, and it just sings. DALI really makes some "happy" sounding speakers. The clarity is way more neutral and favor precision over everything else. They are really two beasts for different preferences.
So for your listening comparison you put the Claritys as supposed on their stands, but the Buchhardts were sideways on top of another speaker without any isolation? This is a detrimental no go for the results.
@goodsound4756 👌 The Bucharest does not care about the placement, they work great on the side, where you can sit nicely in between the 360 radiating waveguide and woofer. Placement is done in order to be able to ABCD switch as fairly as possible in a non-critical listening session to give the team a chance to disinquish between them, without much movement. There is rubber feet in beween all the speakers to isolate them a bit. For the buchardt results, they are simply a product of pushing the low-end in order to get them linear to 25 Hz in a CLOSED, very small cabinet. It works, but only at very low volume, witch is totally fair :-) I even used the wall filter that takes out bass for the test, where all speakers was against the wall, AND roomcorrected, - that should take care of most of any room boundary issue. The clarity works better in the extremes due to the passive woofers and other things.
@johannjohann6523 The optimal would most likely be a 1 way design if it was possible to build a driver that could do everything :-) Every time you are crossing over, there is a multiple of problems that needs to work great in order to make a great speaker. Have a look at the old Yamaha 5000 series review on the channel. The NS5000 speakers there...
85 dB efficiency at 4 ohm nominal impedance, this is going to be hard and expensive to drive for anyone who doesn't own or plan to own a low distortion high wattage class D amplifier.
Mine are 83 bB/4 ohm and an Atoll AM400 has total control with plenty of headroom. I believe a stable amp with good power supply with around 200w/4 ohm should be adequate. I would advice class AB because pairing the already so precise Purifi drivers with class D could possible end up a little to ´dry´. I admit being not the biggest fan of class D (only for subwoofer) so this is preference. Don´t get me wrong, it would be a shame to underpower these to miss out on the full potential of these drivers but it shouldn´t cost a fortune 😊 I suppose an Audiolab 8300 XP should be also great for less money 👍🏻
@justasimplefox thats a interesting conversation. I heard it before and I always think "Here you are buying super low distortion speakers, and then you want to add a little distortion as you find them to clean" ? Whaat? 🤪 If you want total silence and neutrality going for super low distortion all around is the way to go.. Otherwise, you should go for speakers with way more "color". Ofcurse, its always about finding the balance you like the best, but the Purifi Eigentakt amp tech and Clarity speaker combo is just amazing if you are chasing clean as a top priority.
@ac81017 Are you thinking about the Purifi driver here? Reason why not so many companies are using them yet, comes down to price. They aint cheap. Any speaker manufacturer that wants to lower distortion and up performance should naturally look at them.
@@bicster6535 Oh, I didn't know that. Then THIS speaker will be at game changer and all other speaker brands cease to exist. But, will that include Radiant?! I'm confused🤔, because Radiant is also the game changer, hmmm.
Price is high, I admit and would like to see it cheaper but compared to all my previous drivers from SB Acoustics, Seas and Scan Speak these Purifi 6.5" are really something else 😊 The accuracy was unknow for me before, not that all other speakers were bad but there was always something small bothering me with some tracks 🤪 from the first note I was surprised, my brain even needed some time to adapt 😅
Was ist denn ein "richtiger" Tieftöner - bzw. wieso sind es die Purifis nicht? Die Purifis sind egal wer sie misst die am besten performensten Treibereinheiten. "Echter" als das gehts kaum oder?
@jcvscorner I think he is relating to the size, missing the point that its all about what is possible in a small package. If you can go bigger, there is no reason for selecting a small speaker in the first place. :-)
Ja! Fik en hel palle til review jeg har arbejdet mig igennem 🙂. Det er også tilladt for alle andre at være lidt fremme i skoene! Så hvis der er noget du synes fortjener et review, så sig det til firmaerne.
@@stjernholmreviews Er buchardt A700 på tapetet? Eller har du hørt dem? Og i sådan en test som bastesten her, vil A700 da have samme udfordring som A10?
@Gassten Value has nothing to do with the stack of money. That will always be relative to your wallet. In this case, you have €20.000 speakers that the radiant challenges... Check out a pair of €2.500 DALI Rubikore 2 instead (they are really great!) , and be careful with the Arendals. While they are lovely build quality, but I found them to cause listening fatigue, like due to issues at the crossover point. I found them to be quite nasal sounding and also power demanding (tested the Arendal 1723 Monitor THX). You can find the review on rec.dk.
