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Press comments
"Last year, indeed, there were so many unusually awful rooms that Mutine's oasis of quiet was especially appreciated.
Well, Mutine's two rooms were still popular, even though one had to line up (visitors were limited to the number of available chairs).
The Duevel Bella Luna Diamante were a hit, in part no doubt because they were well accompanied: a CEC TL0X transport, an Audiomat Maestro Référence converter and an Audiomat Récital Mk2 tube amplifier.
The Audiomats, by the way, are made in Canada for the North American market.
The second Mutine room featured a much less expensive omnidirectional speaker, the Duevel Planets. Operating with a Mimetism 27.2 player and 17.2 integrated amplifier, it lacked the precise focus of the $14,000 Diamantes, but the sound was decidedly musical, and their $1500 price tag brought the dreams of visitors much closer."
Gérard Rejskind,
UHF Magazine
"The Duevel Planets loudspeaker ($1500) is one of the most elegant and simple solutions to omni-directional sound I've seen. Above each upward-facing driver is positioned a chromed ball for dispersion. While providing a reasonable soundstage, don't expect pinpoint imaging here — it is much more like live sound than perfectionist stereo. Moreover, the soundstage remained consistent as I walked about the room — no sweet spot, and no collapse of the image when sitting off to the side.
In another room, Mutine exhibited their Duevel Bella Luna Diamante omni-directional loudspeaker ($15,490 in piano lacquer) driven by Mutine's Audiomat Recital MkII integrated amplifier fed by a C.E.C TLOX v2 transport and Audiomat Maestro Reference DAC with a separate power supply. While still an omni-directional presentation, the music took a significant upward leap in quality in this room.
Enjoy the Music.com's editor, Steven R. Rochlin, was among the very first to 'discover' these speakers and as such reviewed the original Bella Luna many years ago within the Review Magazine."
Rick Becker,
Enjoy The Music.com
"The Mutine Team is really fantastic."
François Godin,
Montréal
"I'm glad I made it to the Mutine rooms this year. Great people who love music. The room with the bigger speakers was a rare example of sheer beauty, elegance and refinement from a sonic point of view. The Duevel speakers coupled with the Audiomat/Mimetism equipment sounded very beautiful.
(...) all the music they played sounded very nice indeed and no doubt accounted for the very good tastes on their behalf. The smaller Planets also managed to sound very pleasant, even at the modest $1500 price tag ..."
amperidian
Oakville, ON
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