epos speakers

[karma67]

anyone rate these?
ive been looking at the es11.

[Arkless Electronics]

I had a set years ago and although they were good they didn't really suit me and I moved them on after a couple of months... I'm not a fan of mini monitors.
Smooth, quite dynamic and a bit "dark" sounding from memory though.

[hifi_dave]

Flat, lacklustre, boring and had difficulty selling them back in the day.

Others seem to think they are wonderful. The ES14 was a whole heap better.

[Bourney]

ES14 is a superb speaker. Open, vibrant and good fun. I guess they could be seen as a tad bright with the wrong amp up them.

[walpurgis]

Flat, lacklustre, boring and had difficulty selling them back in the day.

Others seem to think they are wonderful. The ES14 was a whole heap better.

I agree with that.

If you want something that sort of size. It might pay to spend a bit more and look at Sonus Faber and Triangle speakers.

On the other hand. For peanuts, you could get a pair of old Ruark Swordsman II speakers. They are damn good.

[Arkless Electronics]

Flat, lacklustre, boring and had difficulty selling them back in the day.

Others seem to think they are wonderful. The ES14 was a whole heap better.

They were with the wrong amp....

Yes ES14 much better.

[YNWaN]

I used ES14's for many years but with a lot more amplification than their price would suggest appropriate. A friend has ES11's and used at low levels (as he has been obliged to) they work very well.

[hifi_dave]

They were with the wrong amp....

Yes ES14 much better.

How do you know which amps we used ?

[southall-1998]

How do you know which amps we used ?

You never know, Dave. Jez, perhaps has some kind of 6th sense :D

S.

[hifi_dave]

Exactly.

Back in those days we had a large range, including Creek, A&R, Audio Research, Krell, EAR, Croft, Sugden, Rowland, Quad and others I can't even recall.

[Macca]

I assume what Jez is getting at is that it's not so much the make of amp but the ability of the amp to drive a low load and to drive the speakers to their optimum level without clipping.

Basic stuff that rarely gets mentioned in magazines or on forums for that matter. People mis-match amp/speaker and then decide the amp is rubbish, or the speaker is rubbish.

Although the big Epos may well have been a boring listen, I don't know since to my knowledge I've never heard any Epos speakers.

My guess is Dave knows what he is doing with matching amps to speakers ;)

[Arkless Electronics]

I've no idea what makes anyone think I was referring their choice of amp... hadn't even occurred to me. I tried them with just a few known very good amps... they were lacklustre. They sounded good though with a MF B1 for some reason. No not technical reasons here Martin.