Canton Vento 830.2

[frenchmon]

I have a question about the shootout with the Monitor Audio's. I have made peace with the RS6's and I am ready to move on. Now to my question the MA's seem to be more about the dynamics of the music and the OML1's are more about flow so would you say the Canton Vento's are more about the flow?

The dynamics were unrelenting with the RS6's and I think that is why I kept taking a break. The RS6's did not excell when the music was funky. Oh and the peaky tweeter was not fun long term.

JM...when I first listened to the MA GX 100, me , Peabody and the dealer thought the ribbon tweeter was very good. The overal presentation we thought was good. He was driving them with the new Onkyo reference seperates. We thought the bass was really strong and balanced with the Ribon tweeters. The midsection presentation was the weekest link but it was still good. So I left there that night thinking the GX 100's where a killer speaker offered at $1700. So after the dealer got the Canton 820.2 in and had a few hours on them, he sent emails too Peabody and I that these Cantons where unbelievable. So we treked on over to his house, and where just simply blown away. Then we put the GX 100 back on the stands and where instantly surprised. The Cantons in its performance had exposed the flaws of the bigger more expensive GX 100's that we missed before when we listened to them before the shoot out. (The 820.2's retails for $13 or 15 hundred I forget which) In my opinion It showed the GX 100's to be agressivly in your face, bloated and smeared bass lines, as well as mids recessed and not as rich and warm, with the ribbon tweeter being bight and agressive! The ribbon simply could not do what the ceramic did, nor did it present the rich warmth of the cantons presentation. I dont know why it took the Cantons for us to hear the flaws of the Monitors. We then took the Cantons to his big system with the Levinson amps and preamp and the cantons where just better.

The Monitors where about the Dynamic and it never seemed to disappear. You where always listening to the speakers. But check this out....the Cantons are very dynamic, but have flow with great rhythm and pace while being rich and warm in the core of the music not only on the edges of bass and cymbals. I am convinced its the smoothness and clarity of the ceramic tweeter Canton has developed. As I said before, this same tweeter was in their 35k Reference speaker.

Reference 1.2 DC | CANTON Reference

I have written Canton in emails about this tweeter in the Vento line. I was told that once they trickled the tweeter down to the Vento line, they had to also tweak and update the crossovers and woofers in the Vento line to accommodate the ceramic tweeter. He went on to say its a world class tweeter design.

JM what drew me to Canton years ago was the midsection having the ability to be very lush and disperse further into the room than any other speaker I had ever heard. I do not know how Canton does it, but I have not heard any other speaker do it like that. I've went to the local audio shops and listen to Velore, Totem, Kudo, Harbeth and a host of them, and I use the Canton rich mids and dispersion as a reference point and no one has it. You would have to take an extensive listen to them to understand what I am saying. I hope I've answered your question....if not perhaps I am not understanding it, and will give it more thought.