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REVIEW<br />
Another benefit of this optimization<br />
is the ease of setting up the<br />
Evidence Platinums. We’ve spent<br />
hours (sometimes a day or more)<br />
to get reference-caliber speakers<br />
to sound their best. The Evidence<br />
Platinums sound great right out of<br />
their crates before much attention<br />
is paid to positioning. About an<br />
hour’s worth of fine-tuning brings<br />
the speakers to the point where,<br />
when Dynaudio USA’s Michael<br />
Manousselis stops by to check my<br />
work, he merely makes a few fine<br />
adjustments and then I’m on my<br />
way. These are not finicky speakers<br />
by any stretch of the imagination.<br />
Even the machined plinth offers a<br />
choice of footers for hard and soft<br />
surfaces. Once unpackaged, the<br />
Evidence Platinums only take a few<br />
days of 24/7 play at modest volume<br />
to open up and sound their best.<br />
Still Solid, Months Later<br />
After listening to these speakers<br />
day in and day out for months, I<br />
am still amazed and impressed.<br />
It’s easy to get carried away with<br />
premium speakers after first listen,<br />
especially after running through a<br />
number of well-recorded audiophile<br />
classics.<br />
This is not the case with the<br />
Evidence Platinums. I go out of my<br />
way to dredge up even the worstsounding<br />
selections in my music<br />
collection, and these speakers do<br />
a fantastic job with any program<br />
material. There is nothing I can<br />
throw at them that trips them up.<br />
Regardless of the program material<br />
and volume level, we simply cannot<br />
drive the Evidence Platinums hard<br />
enough to invoke listener fatigue.<br />
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