Had resisted reading the Review of the Audiovector R10 Arreté flagship loudspeaker until I have been able to have a listen for myself first. Which I have just done, TQ, DD for
the invitation to almost six [6] hours in your Audio Den –
1/2 listening, 1/2 chatting about Hifi subjects from Helmholtz Resonator to Breuer Tonearm (first & only I have seen since reading about it 45yrs ago) 🤭!
IMHO, the speakers are well deserving of the accolades DD bestowed on it. To wit, à good & fair review 👍🫡 Of course, it luxuriates in à supporting system of TT (analogue), Music Server, CDP-DAC, & Electronics of RM5m!
But then the speakers would probably be driven, if not by such expensive front end & electronics, by at least à system commensurate with its own ~RM826K price tag. My own simplistic observations:-
1) so Transparent In differentiating between one recording & another;-
eg: the ‘clean’ but somewhat raw Chinese singer & the much more polished/silky ‘Danny Boy’ by Jacinta, both UHQCDs,
2) Playing LOUD W/O Distortion & Huge Dynamic Range;-
sound tracks from 3 Kingdoms & Avengers Endgame 🫨,
3) Sound Staging;-
I thought the Classical concert track sounded like Stalls Row E or F, & DD said that’s what He set them up for! (I’m more used to cheaper Circle seats at concerts & Hifi listening),
4) Beautiful rendition of music with Big Differences in Loudness &/or Pitch;-
electronic music with Awesome Bass & soprano who was…
5) NOT Drowned Out!
The Japanese diva singing sotto voce in Contralto occasionally changing in pitch to Mezzo w/o being drowned out by loud double bass in b/g,
Very enjoyable DD, 🙏
Could do with some Pipe Organ, maybe MK DC Also Sprach Zarusthara & Power & Glory 1 &/or 2?!
Well deserved “testimony”, now I understand why U work till wee hours in the morning to shift the speakers, 1/2” here & there & back & forth – I could never be that painstaking 🤭- to get the…
6) Row E,F,G Imaging 👍🫡
or cosy piano lounge, jazz club, OR up close 5’ -literally looking at Her feet 💃🏻 – of noisy Flamenco🍷Bar!
In short, faithfully reproducing the…
7) Spatial ‘Atmosphere’ of Venue if so recorded.
And the For À Fistful of Dollars (or I got wrong movie?) soundtrack was fabulous, composed by Ennio Moriconi according to my elder daughter, who also said Ennio was my late Father’s favorite composer (I’m more of a J Williams diehard fan).