Audiophilepure

One could easily spend around $15,000 and several years of effort to build a complete stereo system. I know for certain that I have spent more than that. Or one could just buy a single pair of Vienna Acoustics Mozart Infinity active speakers. In one purchase, you can have a complete, very versatile, and very, very good-sounding stereo system.

I placed the Concertino G4 on their stands about eight feet apart, a foot and a half off the front wall, with a toe-in that crossed their main axis about six inches behind my head. Speaker cables were the AudioQuest Rocket 33, and the amplifier was a Benchmark AHB2. Music was almost exclusively streamed in 24/192 from Qobuz. When a sub was used, it was the SVS Micro 3000, though I only used it to see if the added bass extension was worthwhile. They played together well, and adding a sub will give you a more tactile experience in the low end.

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I listened to GoGo Penguin’s latest Fallowfield Loops (2025) and the separation of piano, synths, bass, and percussion sections flowed masterfully, with decay done right and fullness in sound dynamics as well. Continuing with Electronica, Zero 7’s song “Look Up” from When it Falls (2004) shone with a center string section at the beginning and synths and drums on the left and right channels. It was a pleasant, immersive experience.  

Classical music can be challenging for some speakers; soundstage and separation are lacking in sound if there isn’t a good mid-frequency, but with the Voyager speakers, the orchestras filled the room with ease. Brahms’s Third Symphony under Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Concertgebouw (2025) gave a strong showing. Gardiner’s subtle use of strings (compared to his recording with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique from 2009 with “period” instruments that exploded with sound) was a regal performance.

My initial visual impression of them was fairly wow!—their solid bamboo cabinets and stands are truly beautiful, and bamboo is a great choice in terms of global sustainability. Dustin works with the same cabinetmakers in China that Vera-Fi Audio uses for their loudspeakers; I’ve raved about the seamless appearance of the Vanguard Scout monitors and Caldera subs, and the ONO Tone Labs a3’s are even more strikingly beautiful! The appearance of the a3 cabinets is on par with loudspeakers I’ve seen that retail for many multiples of their $5995 MSRP. The available matching p3 pedestal stands ($995) are manufactured in the same shop; they’re the perfect match to the a3’s in terms of appearance and ergonomics. The speakers and stands are available for purchase individually, but buying them together will save you $500. The stands are exceptionally well-made, and pairing them with the a3’s adds an additional level of coolness to the overall impression. Dustin offers the a3 in satin finish natural or carbonized bamboo; its structural rigidity obviates the need for internal bracing, and the absence of any veneers makes the cabinet exteriors quite durable. The review pair was supplied in the slightly darker carbonized bamboo, which in combination with the matching stands presented a striking appearance.

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This type of tweeter must be experienced in a proper high-end audio system to be understood in my humble opinion. Why? Because it is not just a high-frequency reproducer like a dome or smaller ribbon tweeters. The Magnepan ribbon covers a very wide range of frequencies, from 40kHz to below 2kHz to be exact. Going down to 2kHz is quite low for a tweeter yet it never seems to suffer from breakup as I have heard from lesser drivers. What does this all mean to you? It means incredibly smooth upper-frequency reproduction without all those peaks and dips due to crossover parts or horribly designed crossover networks getting in the way of the music. In fact, the crossover for the 3.6 is extremely well designed and the icing on the cake is that it presents an almost flat 4 Ohm load to your amplifier.

I make no secret that my favorite inexpensive (around $2,400 when new, now available used for under $1,000) dynamic cone speaker is the KEF 104/2. This speaker, like the 3.6 presents a very flat 4 Ohm impedance curve. What seems to happen in Audiophile Land is that once someone buys a speaker with a wide impedance curve they are forever going to Amplifier City buying new boxes. This can also usually be said about speakers that use very complicated crossover networks. If you can not count the individual crossover parts on two hands I try to strictly avoid these designs in general. Maybe my experiences are different than yours, yet in-home auditioning over ten different speakers within this past year has taught me something (I hope). Beware of wide impedance curves and complicated crossovers! This way may lead to Audiophile Neverosa.