Extensive testing hearing in a high-end store with 8 screening rooms has the following result for my personal taste, and tastes can be fundamentally different:
large Klipsch (with horn):
- Bass urgewaltig (world class)
- Upper bass very pleasant
- Voices playing in my head - insane sense of space
- Sound like turntables
- Female voices too thin!
- In the middle EXTREMELY aggressive!
- Very strongly damped space required!
Extraordinary box only for lovers
huge magnate:
- Just flat and cheap effect, not worth mentioning.
KEF (slightly cheaper category):
- Dull, as if it were covered, also not worth mentioning.
Heco Celan GT 702:
-Beautiful bass
- To strong upper bass as Discogeballer
- Trötige centers
- Beautiful surround sound
For those in which it has to go off Disco default.
Canton Karat:
- Despite the lateral Basse comes out no more than from the Vento. Rather less and I felt a little less precise
- Mids and highs inaccurate
- Limited surround sound and limited airiness
Canton Reference (equivalent to the size of the Vento 880)
- Slightly more present in the central region than the Vento 890
- The 890, but sounds a little lofty and balanced, perhaps because of the larger size and the larger bass drivers.
- Maybe a little more accurate than the Vento what it can but compensate with more resonance space in another way.
Canton Vento 890
- Very airy
- Very good surround sound and locatability
- Well balanced, suitable for any music, very consistent
- Upper Bass ok
- Bass? Where is the? Or this would be something more present.
- Processing at its best. Insanely good paint job. It looks like from the inside, I do not know ;-)
The complaints about the lack of low bass I can understand. Anyone who has ever heard a Heco Celan or Klipsch, who knows what I mean ;-)
The best overall picture clearly showed the Vento 890. Those who want to make the walls shake and wants to get a nice deep bass Massage, is unfortunately wrong here. Far away from the wall the bass presence is even weaker.
Clear, deep bass can also, yoy. a large Klipsch or Heco Celan 702 is but little! The Heco has too many upper bass frequencies, which can be annoying in the long run.
Thus, the Vento is particularly very "female friendly", because at least all that I know, this body massaging bass do not like :-))) Even the neighbor would ägern a large Klipsch determined powerful when the glasses in the cupboard vibireren; - )
And frankly, even if me this vibrant air well like in real instruments to me is that so urgewaltig like a Klipsch not noticed, therefore, the question remains, how realistic something is ;-) Okay, a matter of taste!
Let's just hope that you know what you can do with my statement.
As I said, it's all a matter of taste. But most of music under one roof gets the Vento. He who hears only certain directions, the test should go listen extensively what best suits his music, because the differences are huge!
The amplifier should be sufficient dimensionert. Gladly also significantly oversized.
