It's on my phone but I won't have a means of uploading it for a few weeks
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
On arrival DFour's flat (thanks again
), after the greetings and linking of usernames to faces we were faced with what we expected to be a set of 5 bass-creating monoliths.
The Kef PSW2500, MS309 and Paradigm PDR10 were all occupied a similar volume. With the 909 towering over them and the XLS200 looking really quite pathetic. All were simply black cubes apart from the Kef which was in quite a nice silver finish and had a groovy oval shape.
The first surprise was in the weights of them. Obviously the 909 was the heaviest of the bunch but next was the XLS200 which was deceptively heavy and dense (I pulled a muscle in my arm just moving that from the car!). Build quality was generally fairly good with XLS200 seeming practically solid, the 309 and 909 being fairly well built (especially the driver, surround and spikes) but resonating when the cabinet was given a sharp tap. The Kef and Paradigm were the lightweights of the group with the Paradigm being practically weightless.
It should be pointed out that only the BK and Paradigm have conventional solid state amplifiers (that generally weigh a lot with their heatsinks). The others had much lighter digital amps.
Stop me if I miss anything along the way guys
