FYNE AUDIO F703SP Special Production

After years, I have started listening to Rebecca Pidgeon and Spanish Harlem again. It's a beautiful piece, both in terms of performance, lyrics and sound quality. Through the F703SP, it was a special experience. Rarely can speakers literally mesmerize me right from the start and have me devouring the music from the first notes. When I had the little Fyne Audio F501s at home, I praised them for their clarity and depth of imaging. I can say the same about the F703SP, only it's all to the power of four. Listen to the way the opening double bass and vocals are set into the ambience of the recording. There, the Chesky Records' minimalist microphone technique combined with F703SP’s imaging capabilities recreate a virtual recording studio in the listening room. The vocals are sweet and rich, the double is bass tight and well textured. It evokes how a closed baffle speakers sound , the bass is fast and tight and has a nice firm body. Every pluck of a string jumps out of the speakers with a beautifully natural ‘pop’, you can hear the string ringing as well as the instrument’s woody and hollow resonances. Nothing comes across as overly ‘audiophile’ (in the sense of showing off), even the shakers behind the right speaker, with eyes closed, seem as if someone is playing them live in the room. A similar lifelike magic happens with the test track with a recording of an acoustic double bass placed a metre from the microphone. Through the F703SP, it sounds like... a double bass played a meter away from me. The illusion of an acoustic instrument in a real three-dimensional space is just perfect with these Fyne Audio speakers.