On Oct 12, 5:59*pm, "Fed Up Lurker"
wrote:
"Boon" wrote in message

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Just got the new Trenner & Friedl ART monitors from Austria. These
little monitors are absolutely gorgeous with a rich cherry veneer and
a black Corian baffle. I'm still waiting on the stands but I have them
set up in a temporary configuration and they really sound wonderful.
While they look tiny, the cabinets are very deep, and they go down to
about 44 Hz at -6 dB. They're replacing a set of medium-sized
floorstanders from Vienna Acoustics, and the ARTs throw up a much
larger soundstage and go just as deep in the bass.

While T&F are just now making it to these shores, they're well-known
in Europe. The ARTs are relatively new...the serial numbers on mine
are 36a and 36b.

http://www.trenner-friedl.com/index2...art&sprache=en

That is seemingly a sales pitch you are loading onto this group -
are you the Stateside distributor for those over-priced boxes?

No, asshole. I've known most of these people for years, and some of
them have been to my house and have listened to my systems. So I felt
maybe they might be interested (one of them definitely was), even
though it seems audio discussions are not allowed on RAO anymore.


You state "they go down to about 44hz at -6db" That is a dramatic
minus 6 decibels at a not very low 44hz that they roff off at!
So your subsequent claim "go just as deep in the bass" cannot be
true, it is just not possible with those specs!

It's true, because I said they go just as deep in the bass as the
floorstanders they replace. Learn to read.


If you are a genuine punter who fell for the sales pitch, ahem, well...

No. I actually write about this stuff.

Corian is a product developed a long time ago by DuPont, it is used
for kitchens etc. For the price of those pair of boxes I could rig every
kitchen counter in Corian in a couple households for half the price
of those boxes and still get change!

And you wouldn't have the drivers, or the Cardas cabling, or the
German crossovers, or the cabinets. I know what Corian is.

So you bought into the sales pitch that as they sandwiched Corian
with MDF (Thats medium Density Fibre board) you fell for it and paid
the silly price for them?

False assumption.

(This reminds me of the Neat Petite nonsense
but at least they were 20% of the cost - but still crap small boxes)
Elsewhere in this thread you post that each box has been hand
polished - one dosen't polish Corian, just needs occasional wipe with
a damp cloth, just like a kitchen counter.

So are they lying about hand-polished Corian? Would you like to
challenge this in court? Or are you just talking out of your ass?

Yet another idiot (evidently a guy who remodels kitchens) who hasn't
heard them.