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Green Mountain Audio assembled a system of components around its new Continuum 2 speakers ($5500 per pair) that had SoundStage! technical editor Doug Blackburn swooning -- no easy task. The system consisted of a CEC TL-2X transport (approximately $3300) and digital cable, EAD Theater Master Ovation 20-bit DAC in two-channel mode ($4495), Presence Audio Deluxe linestage ($3800), Kimber KCAG interconnect, Sahuaro Audio interconnects and speaker cables, VansEvers Spatial Lens and Window tuning system ($2500 installed in your room by the manufacturer), VansEvers The Unlimiter and Model 85 power conditioners, VansEvers Pandora and standard power cords, EDGE Electronics M8 Stereo 170Wch amplifier ($4150) and a pair of ASC 6' Studio Tube Traps. dB found the sound especially open, transparent and low in distortion. Detail was naturally rendered with no nuance missed. Bass definition was some of the best ever heard, although deep bass extension and power were just short of ideal -- perhaps a function of the small room. dB's torture-test CD, Daboa's From the Gekko (on the Third World label), was reproduced here as well or better than he had ever heard before. The Continuum 2 speakers are noteworthy for a number of reasons, not the least of which is their adjustable nature. Roy Johnson at Green Mountain calls this "Soundfield Convergence[TM]" -- a tube frame with extruded aluminum clamps allow for adjustment of phase alignment and amplitude response, tailoring the speakers more to the amplifier driving them. Like all Green Mountain loudspeakers, the Continuum 2s are time and phase correct designs. The midrange and tweeter enclosures are cast synthetic marble and are vibration isolated from the support system. The Continuum 2 presents a simple resistive load to the amplifier up to 500kHz. |
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