Yessir, I'll be ringing 'em in the morning about that tweeter.
Now on to the good stuff, the Verus Grands. Ah, where to begin....
Well I guess I should start with the room. We recently added acoustic panels at the first reflection points on the side walls. This made some significant improvements to stereo imaging. Also on the bill were some tri-traps for the corners. Unfortunately I use XT32 to smooth out the room and therefore can't tell if there was any change by adding the bass traps. (Kick-bass sounds very natural now, more on this next)
The next item(s) of course is the amps. Loads of dynamics. Drums are the primary change here, the drum set may actually be in my room. Also at reference my system now sounds like you barely have the volume on. Very clean.
Now the new speakers. Pretty. May as well be there kind of imaging. Transparant.
I haven't come across any audible flaws with the front three yet. The center channel does indeed sound the same as the towers with the exception of the bass extension. Our relationship is young still though. I'm certain I'll find the weak link with the LCR set-up eventually.
I used Verus Grand bookshelf speakers for the rear surrounds. I haven't listened directly to them yet.
Now the bipole/dipole. This speaker is the weak link here. It's quite good in bipole mode with usable response well below stated f3. Heck audyssey crossed it over at 40hz! Sounds great, blends in seamlessly.
Put it into dipole and look out. Horrible sensitivity 78db at 1 watt, that's ten db less than bipole. And the f3? Audyssey says 200 Hz!!!!!
This isn't a fluke, even the auto set up chirp sounded bad when it got to the side speakers.
DO NOT BUY IF YOU NEED A DIPOLE SPEAKER!
If you're looking for a bipole to match your Verus Grands, by all means buy a pair.
My overall impression this far is great! I have been awaken early the past two days by the desire/anticipation to listen to the Grands. I have much listening to do to form a fully fleshed out opinion.
Pics soon.
