Following its recent “2009 Soundstage! Network Loudspeaker Product of the Year” Award and excellent reviews in GoodSound! (where it earned “Great Buy” designation) and What Hi-Fi? (where it was awarded “5 Stars”), the Excite X12 just received a rave review by Robert J. Reina which appears in the March issue of US magazine Stereophile.
Editor John Atkinson comments in the Measurements section of the X12 review that: “For $1200/pair, a well engineered speaker like this makes it hard to justify spending more on a bookshelf speaker unless you can afford one of the cost-no-object models.”, while Reina concludes his review stating: “With the Dynaudio Excite X12, there are no tradeoffs. It sets a high standard of excellence in every meaningful sonic parameter, whether in absolute terms or with respect to its price and size Having heard so many excellent speakers in recent years, I thought it would be hard to find an affordable bookshelf model that would stand out from the pack. I was wrong. The Dynaudio Excite X12 has become my new benchmark for loudspeakers costing under $2000/pair”.
The review can be read in its entirety in the March 2010 issue (Vol. 33, No. 3) of Stereophile or directly here (.pdf).
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