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“As expressive and balanced as they are, man, can the Spirits rock! I heard stories from Philip O’Hanlon of absurdly loud SPLs with no distortion, and I have no trouble believing them, as my own rocking-out test had them playing briefly at 110–115dB peaks with absolutely no sign of stress or strain. During this experiment, I kept turning them up, certain that at some point they would start to distort. Good sense took over long before I ever found a breaking point; they do have a 1600-watt power-handling rating, after all! With clean and dynamic power amplifiers (the Audionet MAXes deliver 400 watts into 8 ohms and the CIA Audio D500 MkII’s bring 500 watts to the party), these speakers seemed utterly bullet-proof.”

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“After all that, in the weeks following O’Hanlon’s visit, I continued to fine-tune the Spirits’ positions and toe-in angles. Bass was the way I like it. Tonality was spot-on and very realistic, but I was looking for the optimal balance between razor-sharp depiction and soundstage size and depth. My quest ended with a magnificently big sound but not the tightest imaging. Instruments and voices still hung in space as they should, but each was more rounded and slightly more diffuse than the images produced by my MartinLogans electrostatics. This was not necessarily a bad thing.”

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