Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne

I do not doubt that these speakers are excellent for 2K and maybe are flat excellent. That said, to really know in a real world setting, you would need to mate these 2K speakers with electronics at a level that most people buying a 2K pair of speakers would use. That is, how do these sound with a 2K CD player driven by a 4K integrated amp (or 4-5K separates). Probably 95% of the people who spend 2K on a speaker have a system that costs no more than 8-9K tops. So... hearing these speakers driven by 50K worth of amplification and 30K of a source is not a realistic setting for analysis.

For reference, I heard the Silverline $600 mini speakers driven by 20K of electronics at a show and they sounded absolutely stunning --- when mated with 3K of electronics the same speakers were very, very good for the price... but not stunning by any stretch.

What do the Microones really sound like when driven by realistic electronics?

robsker...great point and one that i hope the people who have ordered them have thought about...i hope they won't be unhappy with them played through systems not as expensive as the ones used to drive them at the shows...

With all due respect to Robsker & Calloway, if the MMMicroOne's were mediocre, great electronics would not make them sound great.

When we voiced the loudspeakers we used all types of amplifiers including an $800 Rotel and they always sounded special to us. We feel this is absolutely a reference level product regardless of the price. I am sure that there are people that will use $300 amps all the way up to mega expensive amplifiers with our loudspeakers.

I will also share with you that there were many people who came to me and said they that thought our MMMicroOne's sounded better than some $30k monitors that were at the show.

Also there were quite a few show reports that gave us "Best Sound at Show" with our MMMicroOnes. Price does not always reflect the quality of a product.

Jonathan Tinn
Evolution Acoustics

I see your point JT, if you cannot trust a reviewer, who can you trust. :-)

Robsker, Calloway,

I agree with Jonathan. Another way of saying it is that since the speaker is downstream of the electronics, if the setup with excellent upstream electronics sounds exceptional then that is testament to the transparency of the speaker just as much as the electronics themselves.

Therefore, one would expect that the same speaker with lesser electronics will mirror the sound of the electronics and not sound as good as with the better electronics, BUT that is not the fault of the speaker. In fact it is its strength. Also, I believe that the transparent speaker with lesser electrronics will still sound better than a less transparent speaker with those lesser electronics. The reason is that you will still hear the micro/macro dynamics, speed and transpareny of the speaker even though the electronics may be of a lower grsade.

Moreover, in my experience, most decent low-priced electronics are much better than you think. I believe, through experience, that speaker quality is much more critical than the the quality of the electronics.

At the end of the day, you want a speaker that sounds great with high priced electronics irrespective of the fact that you may use lower-priced electronics. My two cents.

Andrew