Well the Falcon S is a small version of a Lumen White Silver Flame in tonality and dynamics. Basically what you would expect for half the money. The Silver Flame is very close to the White Light, just a tick off, but at half the price.

The Consensus Conspiracy has the same price as the Silver Flame and costs only little more than half the price of the White Light.

But the sound is totally awesome. It has more and deeper bass (almost too much for my room), has the large midtone driver and has a much more realistic soundscape due to the fact that it is simply taller and the tweeter and the midrange are higher from the floor.

Also the dedicated feet (at 1500 Euro not a bargain at first) are unbelievable at keeping the bass away from the floor.

Also I have Stefan Feketes Consensus speaker cable and this replaced my Shunyata Orion without any doubt. I was never really happy with the Orion compared to the Lyra, but the Consensus cable made the decision to sell it immediately clear and off to Ebay the Shunyata went ;-)

What I can say is that even with the high efficiency of the speakers I really love my 500 Watt monoblocks. They have the authority that matches the speakers.

BTW I just received a Gainclone in form of the Audiosector integrated amp and WOW, that is some sound and built quality for less than my speakers feet were! If you want to treat yourself to a little experiment, try this one out.

If I didn't have the price tag of my Linns in mind, I might have switched ;-)

jensputzier March 16, 2008 12:36

The guy whom I bought the Lumens from had the RP-1 and said it was absolutely stunning. I thought about trying that out between the preamp and the monos.

jensputzier November 03, 2007 08:12

That rack is manufactured by Phonosophie in Germany. I believe that is was formerly labeled under the Naim brand.

jensputzier November 03, 2007 08:10

I find that the solos have a deeper and more defined bass and the difference between the solos and the C2200 is by far larger than the difference between the Klimax Kontrol and the Exotik. Even though you do not need the 500 W power with my speakers.

BTW did you ever work with Lyngdorfs Room Perfect system? I currently have a pair of Lumen White Silver Flame speakers until my Consensus arrive and they cannot be placed perfectly in my room.

jensputzier November 03, 2007 01:12

System edited: The category "ever evolving" will probably change soon to "done for now" since there have been many changes in the system lately. The amps have been moved up to the Klimax Kontrol with Klimax 500 solos and the Ayon Falcon have been sold to make room for the Consensus Audio Conspiracy in a few weeks.

jensputzier October 27, 2007 00:42

System edited: I recently changed the Shunyata Lyra against the Andromeda and shortly after that to the Orion (thanks to Audiogon's for sale section...). Also replaced the Exotik by the Klimax Kontrol preamplifier. This is so good that I will change the C2200 towards the Klimax Chakra Twin or even the Klimax monoblocks.

jensputzier September 18, 2007 13:42