Evidence Master
The Absolute Sound, December 2000/January 2001
Audio, April 1999
Stereophile, December 2000 / 2000 Products of the Year
There was an extraordinarily diverse group of contenders for our writers to choose from this year, from an equally diverse number of countries. Significantly, high-value designs like Revel's F30, Magnepan's MG3.6/R, and Paradigm's Studio/100 made a strong showing. But ultimately it was the cost-no-object engineering that won out.
Other than their European provenance, our joint winners have nothing in common. The slim but massive tower from Danish manufacturer Dynaudio takes traditional low-sensitivity, direct-radiator, moving-coil technology to its limit. It combines an astonishingly neutral tonal balance with superb transparency, genuinely extended, boom-free bass, and, provided you have sufficiently powerful amplification, almost unlimited dynamic range.
To gild the lily, the Evidence's measured performance was textbook in its response flatness, in it's well-controlled dispersion in both lateral and horizontal planes, and in its freedom from resonant problems. In an age when some expensive loudspeakers offer perversely peculiar measured performrance-a subject that dominated Stereophile's "Letters" column earlier this year-it is refreshing to see an expensive speaker for which one doesn't have to make any apologies.
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