XTZ 99.26mkII review on AVForums.com |
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We are pleased to announce that the biggest UK AV and Hi-Fi forum have carried out a review on the XTZ 99.26mkII Loudspeakers. Here are some comments from the reviewer Russell Williams: "The deftness of touch and highly resolved detail of cymbal brushwork, along with a total freedom of over emphasized vocal sibilance is a trait of the tweeter. It makes listening to well recorded vocals and acoustic music a joy, whatever the listening level." "The sound stage, in general, is expansive, deep and gives a fair impression of height. There is no sense of certain sounds being speaker bound, even with recordings that challenge this issue. The Dave Brubek Quartet's timeless 'Take Five' has a very left-of-centre cymbal that resolutely stays just inboard of the left speaker. I've heard plenty of speakers that make this sound like it is coming from the left channel alone, but is not, so it shouldn't. With well recorded acoustic material there is a fine layering of the performers front to back, with the space around the individual performers well defined. Instruments have their own discrete point in space and stay there when the composition increases in complexity." "Pulling the impression together, you have a very well integrated speaker. We are only talking about two drivers, but they are of differing modus operandi and there are plenty of examples where two of a similar ilk haven't achieved the same synergy. The overall picture is one of refinement, natural detail and exceptional, hear through transparency. No one part of the frequency range seems to be emphasized at the expense of another, nor lagging another in quality terms. Balanced might be a shorter way of saying it." We are glad to add that the speakers were awarded an AVForums Best Buy, to read the full review please click here. |
