Last few days I went to the show room and bring my own CD to test the S2.1 MKII. I have listened to the S2.1M, S2.1 MKII and of course the S2000. If listen to normal mp3 song, I think S2.1M and S2.1MKII is doing a good job, especially if s2.1m is less than rm500. The S2.1M sub looks small , but produce a good quality bass with acceptable volume , sound more natural and clearer if compare with S2.1D. S2.1MKII sub is too terrible...but I just wonder why a 10 inch subwoofer pair with a 2.1 speaker, it is not easy to integrate this heavy bass with the satellite speaker. We have to do alot of manual adjustment to get good sound when listening to most of the songs.
I bring 3 CDs too, one of them is classical piano concerto, the other two are CDs bought from hi-fi shop, are female vocal CD, one of them is caiqin. S2.1m perform bad..listening to the S2.1 MKII, is not good too, because we still notice a clear distortion on the piano sound, the piano sound is muffled into the surrounding orchestra sound. When listen to the vocal CD, the caiqin, we do notice a clear distortion on caiqin sound. These distortion I didn't notice with my old ADA885 and my Aego M, but I am using DVD player connecting to my speaker. I think the dynamic range of the amp to the satellite speaker is not capable enough if compare with Aego M or my old ADA885. Of course, the S2000 is very good, I never heard any distortion and the S2000 sound is very smooth and pleasant, when playing the piano concerto, the piano sound can be heard clearly and my Aego M piano sound is very thin and muffled. Listening vocal sound with S2000 is different kind of feeling with Aego M, both I think almost equally good, of course the comparison may not be fair too, Most of the time I am using DVD player connecting to the Aego M or ADA885, however showroom using computer sound to S2000. Last time I make comparison at home, DVD player will output much better sound.
S2,1MKII really produce a very good quality bass, but in terms of music performance, fidelity, sound stage, refinement, smoothness, there is still a clear gap compare with S2000 or Aego M. So I think S2.1 MKII try not to put the price close to 800, because I think most of the people will not able to fully utilize the giant subwoofer. ....Hope the final version will improve the amp power to the satellite speaker, then it should be a good set of multimedia speaker.
Noted. Thank you for taking time out to test all these speakers. Hopefully the final version of the MK2 will not disappointed u