Udklip fra Stereophile test af Canton Vento 809 DC (udgået)
".....and again the Vento 809 DC delivered the sound with clarity and a deep, deep physicality.
The Canton delivered such clarity, I'm convinced, because of that tweeter, which put out an unusual amount of sparkle and
air in the harmonic overtones of the piano strings and cymbals (or anything else on the recording). You say you don't like
metal-dome tweeters? Maybe you're right, but the ADT-25 didn't sound like a metal dome—or a soft dome either. To a
stunning degree, it got out of the way of the sound of music.
"As I had a pair of Sonus Faber Cremonas on hand, and it seemed natural to compare and contrast the Canton Vento 809
DC with this $7495/pair Class A contender. The Cremona, too, is a ported floorstanding three-way with a curved cabinet
profile. I level-matched the speakers for the comparison."
"Having spent a fair amount of time listening to both speakers individually, I expected that they would tell essentially the
same story, with only minor differences in lower-midrange tonality, where I had always felt the Cremona to be a trifle warm
(a coloration I entirely enjoyed).
As it turned out, the results were considerably more...interesting than that.
There was more warmth and body in Charles Lloyd's tenor sax on his Jumping the Creek CD with the Sonus Faber. The
soundstage also seemed a tad more distant (which is not quite to say "muffled"). The 809 DC delivered more slam from
Robert Hurst's bass—I'm not sure it sounded deeper, but it did sound more powerful.
The overtones of Eric Harland's cymbals sounded clearer and brighter—again, not more extended, just more there. Which
was more realistic? I'm not sure. I'd become used to the sound of the Sonus Faber's ring-radiator tweeter, so I may have
overreacted to the Canton's zip just because it was different. Different isn't always better, but I was very taken by the sense
of life and air I heard from the Vento 809 DC.
It began to dawn on me, as I switched between them, that the two speakers might actually be exhibiting a difference in their
designers' points of view.
Playing John La Grou's Messiah recording, I heard much the same changes in perspective, but voices were considerably
warmer through the Cremona. Not radically so—sopranos didn't become mezzos or anything else that extreme—but the
singers seemed about 20 lbs heavier than they did through the Canton. But their voices still sounded good through the 809
DC.
Bass sounded deeper and tauter through the Canton, however. For authority and pure sensation of slammitude, the Vento
809 DC was clearly the champ, though the Cremona never felt deficient in this area. In fact, the Cremona is clearly tuned,
like a musical instrument, to create a top-to-bottom coherence that's really easy to like. And like it I did.
If you'd asked me which approach I philosophically embraced before I compared the two speakers, I probably would have
answered in favor of the Sonus Faber: sometimes a slight exaggeration is the quickest route to a form of truth. Now that I've
compared them, I'm not so sure—the Canton proves that accuracy needn't be ruthless"
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