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"Every once in a while, a new product comes along that steals the show. Here are exerpts from their November/December, 1990 review, at the list price of $599.00: True, but he probably doesn't know that the Snob-Snob-Snobbiest of them all, The Absoulute Sound, has annointed the Ensemble into the High End.
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Professional musician and recording engineer Dennis states in a post below that we should ignore the "audiophile snobs" on this forum who denigrate Henry Kloss' Ensemble. This review is directed at audiophiles who want to get high performance on a budget from this system, which may be available used for very little money. In spite of its age, the Ensemble has lost none of its fine aural character, I think we'll use it for another 18 years.
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We are quite pleased that the 18-year old Ensemble has again found a place in our lives. We do our primary music listening and film viewing in another part of the house with a 7.1 speaker system and a large-screen TV, but the Ensemble significantly improved the audio of the smaller TV. Now voice and music come through the Ensemble with definition, timbre, treble extension, and bass foundation. Although it does not descend to the deepest possible bass, the bass is more than satisfactory.
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The internal TV speakers were utterly lacking in definition and bass extension, but by adding the old Ensemble connected to a Sony STRDE935 receiver, our TV sound has come alive. We needed speakers to provide us with better sound from our small TV. They remained unused for several years until 2009. After a while, they began using a different speaker system and placed the Ensemble aside in a storage closet. Beginning in 2001 the Ensemble was used by other family members. These four speakers served as the main left and right speakers for our first combined home theater and music listening area. We bought the original Cambridge SoundWorks Ensemble in 1991. This is a revisitation with an old, highly regarded speaker system.
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Not bad for an hour or so labor, and a free pair of speakers that had been in the family since 1990. I'll probably have them in there for many years to come as long as they keep working.
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The Ensemble system easily gives enough bass now for music and tv or movie sound for our small 10x12 den, and the only visible speakers are the tiny satellites hanging on the wall. The passive radiators cost $13 each, and I probably paid another dollar for a dozen self tapping mounting screws to secure the passives in the box. It is also capable of playing very loudly with no audible distortion, as the passive radiator takes over at the lowest frequencies, lessening the excursion of the woofer cone at these frequencies. The bass is better defined, and has a warmth and punch that it previously lacked, without the muddiness or boominess that can occur with a port. No wonder the bass was so drowned out, these things were packed so tightly with wadding material that the volume of the filler was about twice that of the box once it was removed! This simple modification has made a big difference in the bass output. Before installing the passives, I removed all the fiberglass wadding that was factory installed in the woofer box.
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I simply bought two 8" passive radiators, and installed them in the Ensemble cabinets at the top of the cabinet in the same position as the woofer. I realize you're never going to get bass like you would from a subwoofer, or a larger 12" woofer from the 8" ensemble driver, but if you can use a jigsaw and electric screwdriver, you can get some pretty solid performance out of these little guys. I listen to a lot of rock and modern music, so a warm yet solid bass is what I was looking for.
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But, I'm a pretty handy guy, and I made a slight modification to the woofer box that has made a dramatic improvement in the bass response. However, the bass was rather understated. The overall sound was pleasant, mids were well defined and open, and the highs were bright but not brassy. These speakers fit into the space in the den nicely, without being obtrusive, and I liked the fact that the slim woofer cabinets could be placed behind a couch and table where they didn't take up space, the satellites I positioned on the back wall behind the couch where they give a good stereo image and a nice open sound. I unboxed them and decided to use them in my den to replace an older set of speakers I was using hooked up to a high end Yamaha receiver. I got the original Ensemble set that my father got in 1990 when my father moved to a bigger house, and decided to get a 5.1 surround home theater system for his larger living room.