Download 6Moons test report. July 2013 (PDF). - German Physiks

Setting the HRS-120 up where all other speakers tend to go, the first sonic thing to strike this listener imprinted and
conditioned by conventional monopole sound was how differently the omnipolar HRS-120 energized the room. Thinking
about it beforehand, I knew perfectly well that it would. Yet the actual experience of just how loudness would register
differently was still novel. That's because here the sound was just as loud to the outsides of the stereo triangle—behind
and around the boxes—as it was between and in front of the speakers. This telegraphed even with the preamp set for atear
loudness at my normal level. The sound pressure inside the space was higher. As such it also was far more even. So
what? All that matters is what arrives at your ears, let the ants crawling up the front and side walls have their own party?
Arguably so. Even so this denser room fill translated as greater fullness with my ears where they've always been, about
four meters from the speakers and as such not in those room areas, which now got far more direct sound than before.
We'll return to this.
As a consequence in this first position shown above, the HRS-120 seemed very hooded, its fine uppermost freqs
overpowered by and drowned out in all these compound midband reflections. Setting the tweeter contour to +4dB to rise
at 8.000Hz counteracted it only marginally. This really wasn't about tonal balance in the signal, but acoustic room
loading outside the signal. Tone control tweaks don't really operate there.