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Neolith review just popped through the door in the form of Hi-Fi News and Record Review.
Priced higher in the UK than I would have thought. £80K. Ken Kessler endeavours to say that is good value. He rates it 90%.
The technical report is far from good - but I think the FR measurements are far from fair. The quoted sensitivity is 90DB, but HFN reckon that it is really around the 84/85 DB mark. Impedance at 10.3KHz is 0.6Ohm, 1.1 Ohm at 113 Hz and 1.3 Ohm at 50 Hz. 0.43 at 20 Hz. You defo need some amps for this, LOL.
Frequency response at 1 and 2 m show a marked downward trend, with a lot of peak to peak variance and a big difference between the two distances. At 1 m I can see a max peak to peak of 15DB on the plots. I personally think it is pointless measuring huge planars at those distances. I'd be far more comfortable with 5 m measurements.
Just thought I'd make people aware the review is available. Wilson Alexandria and Apogee Scintilla are also mentioned.
Priced higher in the UK than I would have thought. £80K. Ken Kessler endeavours to say that is good value. He rates it 90%.
The technical report is far from good - but I think the FR measurements are far from fair. The quoted sensitivity is 90DB, but HFN reckon that it is really around the 84/85 DB mark. Impedance at 10.3KHz is 0.6Ohm, 1.1 Ohm at 113 Hz and 1.3 Ohm at 50 Hz. 0.43 at 20 Hz. You defo need some amps for this, LOL.
Frequency response at 1 and 2 m show a marked downward trend, with a lot of peak to peak variance and a big difference between the two distances. At 1 m I can see a max peak to peak of 15DB on the plots. I personally think it is pointless measuring huge planars at those distances. I'd be far more comfortable with 5 m measurements.
Just thought I'd make people aware the review is available. Wilson Alexandria and Apogee Scintilla are also mentioned.