Anyone heard the Acapella Campanile or Violin?


These speakers are from Germany and have an ion tweeter, a horn and 4 conventional bass drivers. My wife and I heard these at CES and heard 'something special' - a super solidity to the soundstage imaging within the framework of a nicely dynamic and competent sound presentation. It sounded much more like the 'absolute sound' than anything we heard before. The associated equipment was the Aero Audio Capitole CD Player and Amplifiers.

It is not that we doubt our ears - but are curious as to 1. whether other people are also addicted to very good soundstaging (pipedreams or better) and are no longer able to enjoy 'nice fuzzy sonic blobs in space' speakers; 2. whether somehow there was a special (hard to reproduce) room synergy or (easy to reproduce) equipment synergy; 3. whether anybody else has heard this 'extraordinary solid soundstage' when listening to these speakers; 4. whether we were so taken with the imaging and 'you are there' musicality, that we missed listening for things like 'air', 'resolution' etc.; 5. any other comments on these speakers you might have.

Thanks so much!
justacoder

Showing 1 response by jtinn

As nice as they were at THE Expo, I really think a bigger room would have done them more justice. I think they sounded gorgeous; lush and delicate. I would have preferred more "life", but found them quite appealing sonically. I also like that they are very easy to drive. The Audio Aero amplifiers sounded terrific with them.

Nice room.