Egglestonworks Andra Floorstanding Speakers
Egglestonworks Andra Floorstanding Speakers
[May 02, 2001]
M Chang
Audiophile
This is a super mid size speaker with huge sound stage. Very powerful, lighting fast, solid bass, natural midrange (no cross work on midrange. the best midrange you can get!), transparent highs! |
[May 02, 2001]
R Lee
Audiophile
I can't believe someone claim there is no bass! These speaker has a lot top quality bass, tight, deep and low! |
[Dec 07, 1997]
Michael Crespo
an Audiophile
I just heard these at Sound by Singer and was blown away!! From top to bottom, they are the best speakers I have ever heard. Incredibly smooth highs at high levels, very DEEP and tight bass, the midrange is very good (though it sounds a little veiled compared to electrostats, particularly the Quad ESl-63 US Monitor), soundstaging and images were prodigious. A truly excellent speaker. These redefine the speaker to die for!!!! |
[Dec 08, 1997]
Cal
an Audio Enthusiast
Overpriced for what I heard, can get the same performance for much less, IMHO, Avalon Avatar seems to get really close to what I heard from Andra and THAT less than half the price. May be just mebbe that's what you pay to buy Stereophile recommended component, me think. |
[Dec 12, 1997]
Rick Gardner
an Audiophile
Stereophile creates these "personality cults" with their reviews. The Andra is a good example. Compared to a truly musical speaker like the ESP Concert Grands it sounds like hi-fi. But people will buy it, because Stereophile says its the best. Sad. They should describe equipment, not rate it. |
[Dec 12, 1997]
Michael Liebowitz
an Audiophile
I owned the Andras for about six months and thought they were great. The amplification was the CD Premier 8-XS, which was the wrong fit for the speaker. These things need power. Very good sound, good bass, great midrange. Upgraded from them to Cello Masters which are in a wholly different class than the Andras, but the latter are quite good for all sorts of music. Better than the Wilson WATT/Puppies |
[Jun 04, 1998]
Trance
an Audiophile
I heard these speakers at" Sound by Singer " in NY, they were hooked upto a Krell Kav-500 and Krell a250. They sound GREAT ! Smoothest Highs Ive |
[Jan 20, 1999]
Joep
an Audiophile
After more then one year of listening to and comparing of everything that has possibly been made on this planet I decided to buy a pair of EgglestonWorks Andra's. My system consists of VTL MB-750 monoblock's, a Wadia 860 CD-player/Pre-amp and Transparent Audio inter connects/speaker cables. I have heard the Andra's with several top of the line power-amps like Krell FPB-300/600, FPB-250/350 monoblocks, Levinson 331/333/336, Rowland model 8ti and all sounded great in some way but I felt most involved with the music hearing them driven by the VTL tube amp's (350w triode mode/750w tetrode mode). I agree with another reviewer that they need a lot of power and they are very unforgiving. After listening to a lot of high-end speakers I think the Andra's are one of the few speakers that let you enjoy music as close as possible to a live performance. I can only agree with some of the other reviewers 'Truly a speaker to die for' and 'It does not get better than this'. |
[Jul 19, 1999]
WS
an Audio Enthusiast
After reading all the wonderful reviews on the Andras, I arranged for a listening as I am in the market for a pair of speakers. I was so excited. In the beginning, the store guys used a Mark Levinson 335 to drive them, a Audio Research preamp. The Andra didn't want to move at all. Something sounded really wrong. They obviously require a LOT more power to make the drivers move. So we changed the setup, and used a Krell pre/amp 300 combo. Something still wasn't right. Midbass is supposed to be the Andra's forte, but it sounded 'thin'... bass was... VERY tight (over damped), and not quite as deep as I hoped. Highs were good, but not quite transparent. |
[Jun 25, 1997]
George Katsampes
an Audiophile
Here is a speaker to simply die for. Of all the audio systems I've listened to over the years (and there's been plenty!), I've never felt so in-touch with the music as I have with a system powering the Eggleston "Andra" speakers. They're not cheap ($14,700.00) and assuming the rest of your system can compliment a speaker of this caliber, and, too, you're in the market for new speakers, then by all means be sure to audition the Andra loudspeakers from Eggleston Works. |