The Robert Lighton room was featuring their speakers on all all Audio Note system [excepting the Benz cartridge].
The speakers, the $20K RL10 are high-efficiency two-way speakers and invite comparison to Audio Note speakers. They are designed to have more bass than ANUK speakers when placed further away from a wall and, indeed, they seem to do that. They are very slightly more harmonically rich than the comparably-priced newer hemp-driver ANUK speakers, but less dynamic and quite a bit more uneven with respect to frequency response and dynamics top-to-bottom.
The ANUK harmonics here were kind of startling after spending quite some time with the new Ktema monitor speakers [which we both liked very much]. To some degree we humans just all get used to a more threadbare harmonic presentation [of the Air Tight amps driving the Ktema, in that case], much more easily than we of the refined tastes [aka audiophiles] might like to think .
Robert Lighton RL10 speaker and external crossover
Robert Lighton RL10 loudspeaker and outboard crossover
Robert Lighton RL10 loudspeaker external crossover
Audio Note U.K. TT3 half reference turntable, Meishu integrated, M3RIAA phono stage and CD4.1x CD player
Audio Note U.K. TT3 half reference turntable
Audio Note U.K. TT3 half reference turntable
Audio Note U.K. TT3 half reference turntable and Benz Ebony cartridge
Audio Note U.K. TT3 half reference turntable and Benz ‘Ebony’ cartridge
Audio Note U.K. TT3 half reference turntable control box
Audio Note U.K. Meishu Phono Silver Signature integrated amplifier
Audio Note U.K. M3RIAA phono stage
Audio Note U.K. CD4.1x CD player
Audio Note U.K. Meishu Phono Silver Signature integrated amplifier
Audio Note U.K. Meishu Phono Silver Signature integrated amplifier open chassis
On static display, two Robert Lighton RL10 loudspeaker enclosures
On static display, a Robert Lighton RL10 loudspeaker enclosure
Close-up of the tweeter used by the Robert Lighton RL10 loudspeaker
