Bookshelf speakers HECO Music Colors 100
Compact, beautiful, well-sounding and not too expensive speakers - dreamboat of every music lover. And the music is a pleasure, and my wife does not mind. Here are all these qualities rarely found together: designer speakers even at higher prices rarely boasts good sound, and traditional, it usually takes up too much space. The German company HECO took to resolve this contradiction.
German experts, despite the small size of Music Colors 100, came to the design of these models with the utmost seriousness. The first thing you notice, removing monitors out of the box - carefully constructed buildings with rounded edges and perfect quality varnish. The couple came to us for testing, covered with red enamel, and still have a black and white versions, as well as more rigorous and refined brown "Espresso/Wenge". With this panel, it is easy to choose the color that blends with the existing interior. And integrating it easier not only due to the diversity of colors, but also the ease of installation. These monitors really shelf - because the reflex port withdrawn forward, they can be put on a bookshelf or in a doorway of modular furniture. But not too high - the tweeter is approximately at ear level of a seated listener.
Fabric grill is attached to the magnetic snap. If you remove it, then at first glance it may seem that the supporting surface for both speakers is the plastic front panel. In fact it is attached only to the tweeter and bass reflex tube and midbass driver is installed on 18-mm plate of MDF, glued tightly between other walls. With such a modest internal volume (about 4 liters) made transverse screed to increase the rigidity of the housing.
Inch soft dome tweeter with neodymium magnet mounted in a recess resembling horn, due to which was able to expand the radiation pattern at high frequencies.
Diffuser midbass driver diameter of 110 mm is made of long-fiber pulp impregnated with stabilizing. This material has the required properties - high stiffness at low weight and effective suppression of internal resonances. Proprietary design of the magnetic system Klippel different low distortion even at extreme amplitudes. Provides efficient cooling inch voice coil, thereby reducing thermal compression, narrowing the dynamic range playback.
Crossover consists of selected components, and assembled next to the two gold-plated screw terminals.
This caliber midbass radiator promises how a decent bass, but Music Colors 100 may perplex and the experienced listener. A feeling that does not play midget satellites and solid monitors with a minimum of 8-inch woofer. Of course, the laws of acoustics can not be fooled, and the deepest bass you will not hear, but anything above 50 Hz, played very convincingly, with incredible for this size drive. Bass on the entry "My Love Is" Diana Krall was passed with minimal simplifications attack and string vibration seemed completely natural. That's what happens deceptive appearance - a beautiful gloss hides a real fighting spirit. These kids are no noticeable compression and distortion and regains fragments of symphonic works, and Chinese drum beats, with at a decent volume. Immediately, I note that the most powerful drive there still when the speakers are not located in the plane of the table, and heavy racks. In this case, the sound is particularly filled and thorough.
Uppercase clean, detailed and quite aggressive, although the plates and other voiced instruments sometimes seem too noticeable from the crowd. But if you put the monitors so that their front panels are in the same line, this emphasis is almost completely disappears.
Quite obvious advantage tweeters - in the construction of the soundstage. It has very clear boundaries and within the sources are localized very sharply. Tools are not linked to the speakers, and are located between them with a clear positioning in depth. If you sit closer to the speakers, just between them, it is possible to achieve the effect of the headphones when the apparent sound sources are concentrated in the center of the soundstage. This indirectly indicates a high level of design, allows to produce speakers with exactly the same characteristics.
Generally speaking, a small-sized acoustic many virtues, and the most important of them - the fusion of sound. The closer to each other located midbass and tweeter, the more such a system is like a point source of radiation. This affects not only the spatial images, but also timbre resolution. Take at least an acoustic guitar trio recording - is not only the tools themselves accurately identified the nature of the sound, but also felt the relief of each string. Of course, to obtain a three-dimensional picture with such detail you can with three-way floor speakers, but the costs will be disproportionately higher.
Integration into the interior is facilitated not only by the diversity of colors, but also ease of installation
A feeling that does not play midget satellites and solid monitors with a minimum of 8-inch woofer.
