m-db where did you hear the Personas and what were they setup with?
I have sold Avalons in the past, and do find them to sound excellent. I have always had tremendous respect for Avalons, but boy have they gotten pricey for what you are getting these days.
I am not going to disagree with you that the Personas can sound a bit bright if you don't have them with the right gear. They are definatly tuned to sound neutral, but are definately not recessed, I would say they remind me a tad like the B&W Diamonds but with a more intergrated midrange, and a bit less agreesive top end then the new B&Ws.
Again, we have one of the best Personas setups in the country and are using some of the best possible gear with them in an acoutically neutral room.
Your opinion of them might be radically different if you heard our setup.
As I mentioned in some of the previous posts it has taken us years to come up with this system. The funny thing is what worked with the remarkably high resolution Polymers pure Diamond tweete and midrange, worked splendily with the Personas.
For the record: T+A electronics, Aqua Hif, T+A PDP 3000 or Light Harmonic Davinci MK II, Enklekin cables with Audio Magico power conditioning.
Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ
I have sold Avalons in the past, and do find them to sound excellent. I have always had tremendous respect for Avalons, but boy have they gotten pricey for what you are getting these days.
I am not going to disagree with you that the Personas can sound a bit bright if you don't have them with the right gear. They are definatly tuned to sound neutral, but are definately not recessed, I would say they remind me a tad like the B&W Diamonds but with a more intergrated midrange, and a bit less agreesive top end then the new B&Ws.
Again, we have one of the best Personas setups in the country and are using some of the best possible gear with them in an acoutically neutral room.
Your opinion of them might be radically different if you heard our setup.
As I mentioned in some of the previous posts it has taken us years to come up with this system. The funny thing is what worked with the remarkably high resolution Polymers pure Diamond tweete and midrange, worked splendily with the Personas.
For the record: T+A electronics, Aqua Hif, T+A PDP 3000 or Light Harmonic Davinci MK II, Enklekin cables with Audio Magico power conditioning.
Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ