TEST chario® ACADEMY SONNET Image hifi magazine 3/2007 – May / June 2007 – No. 75 from Heinz Gelking
The chario® Academy Sonnet is the following model of “my” chario® Academy Millennium 1 For me it is absolutely clear, that it slowly look like, that I became the house- and factory writer of chario®, the loudspeaker manufacturer from Merate. I wrote every test of chario® speakers in the image hifi magazine. Millennium 1, Cygnus, Serendipity. Normally we avoid such heaping within the editorial staff. First, it should be more exciting for the reader, to see the products of a manufacturer from a different perspective. Second, it serves to extend the horizon of an editor. Third, it avoids the impression of a certain dependency of the writing editor of the manufacturer or the distributor. About this, I fight again this theme with my hands and feet. But my fight was not very long and successful. But honestly, also not with hand and feet, but with the proposition, somebody else could……But it regrets, what I always anticipate: I have not the power to effect myself. I have to bend me in front of arguments like this: But this is the following model of your chario® Academy Millennium 1. You can explain this in the best way, where the difference between the old and the new model is. That’s what the reader wants to read and know. Who should write about this? You are the right person! That’s right! I have had a long time a chario® Academy Millennium 1. First as my main speaker system and later, after I bought the Revel Performa F 32, I used my chario® Millennium 1 another two years. Later, I sold them. Now they are playing at another nice place, because they are to excellent, to depose them soundless in a corner of your apartment. Till the last day of using her, it was really a pleasure to listen to her. After this long time and my very enthusiastic test in 1999 it offers me some faints. It should be a nice, interesting business, to test the following model. A very good starting view and point is, to have a look at the chario® Academy Sonnet and are her stands. I like the new developed stands for the chario® Academy Sonnet, but they have – in defiance of their elegant swing backwards – a more pertinent amazing grace. Esthetical it likes similar to the old stands, but technical the new stands have an enormous advantage. The backwards spreaded steel feet stick on the ground a triangle of a wide of 55 cm. Here, Mario Murace can explain at the phone, this has only cosmetic reasons – no reasons for the sound, only reasons for the new design. This variant saves the wooden parquet, is more save and has more stability as the four point spikes of the old stands of chario® Academy Millennium 1. But the new stands need this stability, because the chario® Academy Sonnet makes something like a head-stand. The tweeter is placed below, the woofermidrange is placed above. The chario® Academy Sonnet looks like a cutted piece of the chario® Academy Serendipity ( image hifi magazine 5/2006 ) here it seems, that a big tower speaker is enthroned head-standed on an enormous subwoofer. To place the tweeter in the ear altitude, the stands have to be higher than normal ones and depending of the movement of the woofer-midrange, they should have a special save stand. This is not only a question for security for this aero nose heavy looking system; it is the question for the quality of sound. As less, the speaker cabinet moves vertical, so better and more perfect the membranes can reproduce the musical signal and can produce an exact sound in an exact direction. About this you can fix the chario® Academy Sonnet with two screws. 27 kg is the weight for this system ( speaker and stand ) Under normal circumstances moves really nothing!
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