Do what you love they said – the right people will appear in your life. making more entries and projects underaudio-architect.euI looked at it every now and thenAtalante 5.
At this point, I try to describe raisins and interesting things, and my nose told me that it can be a very good and interesting column. Strongly niche – exactly what I like.
I was supposed to contact one of the stores for an audition, but as there was no time – the case was delayed. One morning I saw an e-mail with a proposal from Bartek – a man from DNA audio to do something together in the context of audio-architect.eu … I didn’t have to persuade me: so we start with the source – this place.
I like openness on the other side. I like to feel passion, flexibility and openness – I felt all these features in my adversary immediately. Less than a week later, Atalante was already in my living room.
Atalante 5 – first approach
To my surprise, the parcels came to me in the floor version and the warning light came on. The first listening sessions were generally not crazy and I was already looking for something that I could put them on.
I don’t have to be as elegant as the editor of WStereo (which I still like to read, although I feel a bit sorry for him when I see it when I exercise, trying to use my common sense by reviewing some blocks).
For me – they were playing on the floor. The whole thing was quite sticky, and the bass was terrible – to the extent that I wanted to borrow a source for Saber, which I can’t digest.
Remember, however, that you are reading a heretic without acoustic panels, which everyone certainly has in their living room, so my opinion is naturally worth shit for the nameless audiophile 😉
Apart from this digression – so I asked to send stands because I have tried playing from the soil many times and I know that many people do not see (or rather hear) nothing wrong with that. For me – even though I don’t have acoustics done (or maybe that’s why ?!) It doesn’t work.
It was so bad that 2 bystanders asked me to plug inFL9which played much more lively, faster and more charming (the column from the beginning of the 1900s; 3 roads and before inflation cost similar money to Audio Revival today).
Atalante 5 – second approach
Stands have arrived, Christmas and New Year have passed, I caught a little appetite for audio again and started the next listening sessions.
At the stands, virtually any amplifier got very good right away – the tonal balance began to be ‘right’, the bass accelerated, the top opened.
Pier Audio, Yaqin MC-100B, Haiku Sol I, Phast Anniversary, Atoll In200 and, of course, the reliable, reference Audion Silver Night MK2 have entered the tests.
Actually, with every taste in this setting, they sounded OK and did not require great correction with some cables or lamps. I would probably mix more set under myself, but on this track I have already listened to so many speakers that it is quite easy to catch what is from Atalante and what is not. What appears and what disappears.
In short, feel what they really are.
From the columns next to it I had mentionedFL9, Harbeth Compact 7, Tannoy Glenair 10, a moment earlier in this set were hostedLiving Voice Avatar R4– So we have quite a strong representation straight from the UK, i.e. a game focused on a very good center.
Audio Revival Atalante 5
In fact, most of the electronics fared well, or actually very good –As befits a column with 2 domes – space, selectivity in the midrange is always great.
In addition, for actually most loudspeakers with a wide front and large bass – we have tangibility and nice acoustic pressure almost from the very beginning (read from low volume). Unfortunately, not every amplifier ensures this – which was confirmed by the listening session, for example, with the 100W Ayon Spirit 3 on KT150.
Nevertheless, I believe that in order to get the full potential of them – they should be treateda good triode.
And here the real fun begins, because not every good triode will play well with any loudspeakers, but if we find loudspeakers that play well with a good triode, we are very close to the sound nirvana.
With myAudion Silver Nightparallel semk2(18W) Everything is playing better, but only a few columns have it.
Atalante have it. I would say it is slightly smoky. audible, but not playing the first violin. The first fiddle is reserved for the diameter, but it is not a thrust characteristic of the columns with the UK family (pleasant, often very effective, but often also tiring)
Revivale is a very nice way to balance between intimacy and distance. They can engage, but they do not impose themselves. They don’t go forward as much as Harbethy or Tannoye – they play with a much bigger class, stretching the sound from below.
In Harbs you can feel a compromise, the sound for such small packages is really fascinating and dynamic, but here we go higher in class. Feel much more potential and seriousness.
bass...
Such a large transducer driven by a good stove is practically a guarantee of a better bass than with 95% narrow bars. It was no different here and it was a good place to refer to the other – previously mentioned speakers.
Atalente 5 vs. Other columns
Atalante, thanks to the large kennel and the large bass player at the start, have one big plus: they do not have to cheat physics. You can feel it and you can’t jump over it. Maybe one column in 100 can hide a small size under a brilliant structure.
Living Voice Avatar R4(about PLN 35,000) they play at the bottom faster, more agile and a bit more contour. But …. they lack this seriousness, scale and freedom from the low volume levels that Atalante provides.
As we are at LV, their playing goes a bit higher. slightly neutral. Atalante is more pastels, slightly smoked at the top (on the same set, which was actually on point for LV)
This sound is much darker and fuller than the bottomtannoy, from Glenair also more detailed and definitely with a deeper stage.
I also consider Atalanta to be more interesting and more potential columns than similarly priced Harbeth 7 or 30.
It would also be appropriate to mentionAudiophase Flowbecause it is a similar budget (PLN 20,000) and also 3 roads.
Flows are loudspeakers much more versatile. They’re better at techniawce, rock. They also play in class, but a bit more party-like.
I just realized that I wrote stupid, but having flow after the post, I wanted them to amused me with stronger music … hence it may be a bit unfortunate expression 🙂
I remember that the flow has a similarly smoky hill, a slightly less tasteful diameter. Although this one is really very good in them, the Revivale with a lamp can show a little more charm – I throw it on a dome on the diameter.
Atalante 5 – opinion
I like Atalante 5 very much. Do you know why?Because when dealing with such a column, knowing their price, you just … don’t feel fucked.
They look absolutely insane, the logotype on the stands or the front, the shape, the height – everything is buttoned up recently.
In the amount of about PLN 20,000 at today’s prices of materials and labor, I consider it a really huge art to make such a product – which is not a shame to put it in a new home and which still plays very well.
He also plays very wellSE lamp, and when we hit such a column, you can assemble a set that is very nice and stylish looking, which costs less than PLN 100,000.
When they were in myAA consultationThis time I was visited by Arek with Ayon Spirit on the 4x KT150. he fell ill with audiones (just likemarkwhich we are already trying to organize a park) and on Atalante 5.
And now a note: as I have said many times here:The whole system is playing. Atalante 5 can be a step forward for you, and they can be a problem if the set you have … is broken so that the old loudspeakers play.
- So if you are interested in Audio Revivale and you want a good piece –Feel free to contact me. We will do it so that it is not good, but very good.
- If you have it, and they are not playing … we can look for the reason …
- If they are available on the secondary market – I am almost sure that they did not get the right conditions (amplifier) or they were playing off the floor. This is not the end of the world, nor a column for everyone.
However, if you are here and you are reading this … something tells you –This could be it …You may be right … 🙂
It’s a very good, very honest product and great sounding with a good lamp, so I get my recommendation and it’s on offerhttps://audio-architect.eu
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PS: If you already have Atalante 5 (I know you sell them quite a lot) and here you have come – let me know in the comments – how you perceive them in your systems.
