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

Still looking for the optimal setup, this inter-speaker spacing here had narrowed over the first attempt but the
front-wall distance was still insufficient.
This is at the heart of widespread audiophile obsession with soundstaging, imaging, performer outlines, layering etc.
First and foremost these are visual qualities translated into the aural domain. By themselves they're completely artificial
and unrelated to live sound. But because playback itself is unnatural—no visual data, just two sound sources faking up
as many sources as there are performers—one artifice overlaid on another makes for a more complete experience. In
its own way it appeals a bit to our visual perception, which during a live performance is automatically cross-coupled to
our ears and constantly processed by our brain. By design the HRS-120 homogenizes the intensity of localization cues
because its tweeter is an omni. Whether you approve or not shall very much depend on whether you subscribe to the
stereophonic ideal; or to live sound minus its natural visual dimension (which would be like a blind person hears). For
those in the first group, could the HRS-120 be a natural-born super tweeter candidate to add purely directional treble
cues over and above its native 360° radiation pattern? With ENIGMAcoustics' Sopranino inbound for its own review, I'd
find out.
Have you ever turned to a friend during a performance and gushed over just how airy it all sounded? If you think
closely, live sound really is far more midrange-y and bassy than the typical hifi sound. Qualities like performer halos,
endless decays, spiderwebby venue reflections and such mostly don't occur in real life because our ear isn't a
microphone pickup clipped to the bridge of a guitar. The practice of multi-tracked close-mic'd recordings played back
over just front-firing speakers has conditioned us to call a quite unnatural energy balance right. If it's airy you crave, you
have your work cut out with the German Physiks.