esthetics

sound!

I had high expectations for this product, but the speakers did not convince me with their sound. The manufacturer claims that these A'diva's don't necessary need a subwoofer. But without the sub the sound is not complete, you just miss too much of the sound spectrum. The speakers sound unfussy and there's enough detail on display. But it all goes wrong in the middle and low area. A sub is a necessity because the gallo's don't produce low mids en lows. Aestheticly its a really nice solution and they would function well in a 5.1/7.1 assembly in combination with a strong subwoofer. But for music purpesses its not suitable. I think the price / quality ratio is unfavorable at 800 euro per couple.
In short: for lesser money you can get better speakers who really make music!

Transparency, coherency (no crossover!) single driver, imaging, tone, musicality, value.

Not the best top end but what do youe expect from such a feat of speaker design that is a single driver that has has frequency response to 20khz? It sounds fine, just not top flight like a dedicated tweater but this is in my opinion almost irrelevant considering the complete musical 'package' that this speaker offers.

I bought this to as part of my secondary system to be used in a relatively small room, and to be paired with a an Outlaw LFM2 subwoofer. I am using the Gallo A'diva stands. When I first bought them they didn't sound great, nasally, not very pleasant and constricted. The manual indicates that they need approx 50 hours of break in time - and sure enough right about 50 hours later of break in these little marvels bloomed to life. I've read a full review for them on 6 moons where John Potis basically says that its hard not to love these things for being so small, so inexpensive, and so fantastic. They really are a fanastic speaker, I love listening to music on them, amazingly detailed, coherent, boxless, colorless transparent type of speaker. Easy to fall in love with these - I did long ago. Sure they are not floor standing, totally full range, no compromise speakers but for what they are the value is incredible. I just find myself looking forward to listening to all kinds of music on these - and they are very satisfying in almost every way to listen to and so flexible as far as being able have great sound even in a space confined small room. Proof that so called "lifestyle" oriented audio gear can sound fantastic and have as much or more fidelity as 'life consuming' sized speakers...

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