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3/25/01 — Enjoy The Music listens to three Soliloquy systems at the Montreal HiFi show and singles out the Model 6.2 as performing exceptionally well
For years, I taught the little people of grade nine that a soliloquy was a speech given by an actor alone on the stage in which the actor gives his or her inner most thoughts. The purpose of this dramatic tool was to allow the playwright to reveal character, to advance the plot, to allow a character the opportunity to create suspense and dramatic irony by revealing what he or she was going to do. The Soliloquy speakers do something similar. They increase tension as you hear the musical argument build and expand. They advance the plot (obviously) and create suspense as you wonder what more the music can give beyond what it already has. Above all, they reveal the composer and performer's inner most thoughts by revealing the inner detail of the music. We listened to several of the Soliloquy speakers including, the 5.3 ($3,000 CAD), the 6.2 ($3,800 CAD) and the 6.5 ($9,500 CAD). The electronics with the 5.3 were the Talk Electronics Cyclone 1 amp ($1,399 CAD) and Thunder 2 CD player ($1,799 CAD). A Jeff Rowland amp and Metronome CD player powered the 6.5. Eraudio, a new Russian manufacturer was demonstrating a number of its single-ended integrated amplifiers with a pair of Soliloquay 6.2 and was the best system of the three. A Metronome CD player provided the source. An EnjoyTheMusic review of the 6.2 will be appearing in the very near future.
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