But the real standout quality of the DeVore O/Bronze are the way they reproduce music in its entirety, which I would characterize as stunningly alive. An aside—during their Barn stay, a few people came and went to deliver and/or pick up review gear and on three occasions, with three different people, they all sat in front of the O/Bronze for a listen and all three smiled almost immediately with that “Oh man, that’s just so good.” kinda smile. When a hifi makes you smile, you know it’s doing a great job.

The O/Bronze are among the finest reproducers of the unique voice of things that make music, and/or noise, that I’ve had the great pleasure of living with and they endowed every element of every recording I played through them with full voice, dimension, and impact perfectly drawn in space. This level of tactile realness translates into a kind of aural illusion similar to the optical kind where the same image can be seen in two different ways like a vase that’s also two people in profile, a Rubin vase, or a rabbit that’s also a duck. The O/Bronze duality trick is they allow you to sit back and listen in to the music happening in space or, due to the superb level of tactile and timbral rightness, you can nearly melt into the music so it feels like it’s being made inside your head and body. Astoundingly lovely.

Boom laka-laka-laka indeed which brings me back to that 1” silk dome tweeter and the O/Bronze’s resolving prowess that never bites because it is so damn smooth. Of course when the music calls for bite, like during Freddie Stone’s guitar riffs here, the O/Bronze bite but I’m talking about their lack of etch or overly bright exaggerated upper frequencies that can plague some other speakers that trade paper for more space age and precious materials. And when it comes to Boom, that 10” woofer grooves with controlled and well tuned authority but the more important part of the O/Bronze performance is its seamless portrayal of the entire sonic spectrum with no sense of it’s being reconstructed from various parts like drivers, ports, cabinets, and crossovers. Boom laka-laka-laka, Boom laka-lak-goon-ka boom.

If you relish the sounds of music, the voices that make a violin a violin and a cello a cello and find real excitement in interplay, timing, tone, and texture, the DeVore O/Bronze do these things as well as any speaker I’ve heard and when it comes to delicacy and dance, the movement of things in air, the DeVore’s outshine most speakers I’ve heard.

What’s more, the ability to connect with music, to get completely lost in the world of an album hour after hour, day after day, month after month, is something I can’t live without when it comes to hifi and the O/Bronze delivered an intoxicating and near dizzying level of connectedness 100% of the time. Making me 100% happy.

Link do recenzji: DeVore Orangutan O/Bronze – Twittering Machines

Link: DeVore Orangutan O/Bronze – Twittering Machines – Favorite Speakers

Link: DeVore Orangutan O/Bronze – hi-fi+ – Highly Commended: Floorstanding Loudspeaker £20k-£30