Luxman L-505uXII with Fyne F501SP Speakers

Scene; a semi dark recording studio in Manhatten. Time; three-o-clock – just past breakfast, Jazz Standard Time. Benny is sitting at the Steinway. The shy looking blonde, waiting for her cue to sing looks up as the call comes, “Rolling, take five” A few notes of intro from the piano lights up the air. She starts singing and immediately and the space is filled with a sound that is warm and flowing.

Skip forward in time. A listening session in Vancouver, Canada. The recording is sitting on a CD player. Can the event be re-produced? A hushed silence descends in the room as the play button is pressed.

Even low level detail, so often lost on most systems, is strikingly present. The noise floor is so low that notes seem to rise out of an inky black background. The Luxman is about transparency, allowing you to get close to the moment the recording was done, being in the room with the musician, getting intimate with the effortless detail, especially micro-detail. Muscular when it needs to be, bringing the scale of instruments into focus. Tight bass, never forceful, just lively, bringing the launch of a sudden pressure wave of air as a drum is struck into your room as if you were present the day the recording was done.

Most importantly, the speakers seem to take each note and present it as a letter in the alphabet of emotional expression: Feeling. After a few notes you feel as if your ears are connected to your heart.

Open, relaxed and silky smooth. Punchy, rhythmic and dynamic. Listen to the utterly amazing transients of the bass playing on track 1, the way the voice comes through with velvety smoothness.

The speakers are placed about eight feet apart. The voice seems to appear right there, in front of you, at the piano, in the room. The sound just breathes, with space and around the instruments and palpable presence.

The Fyne F501SP is a full range loudspeaker, with correct reproduction of timbre and harmonics up and down the scale. The cabinets are so inert that the boxes just disappear, leaving a three dimensional image in the space between the loudspeakers.

If you would like to see yourself in the listening chair, contact us. This is our business, the reproduction.

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"If you’re looking for excitement and energy we can’t think of an alternative that betters these at the price. Play Nirvana’s Nevermind set and the sound simply erupts from the speakers, generating a sense of drive and attack that makes it hard to sit still"

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