The slim tweeter baffle is made of solid Tauari hardwood and looks similar to the side panels, while the upper and lower…
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A particularly nice styling feature—unique to the Mezzo, I believe—is that you can actually see right through the speaker. The narrow slits that separate the three sections add a lightness of touch to an otherwise rather monumental front view. The Mezzo is not particularly big, especially by US standards, and is relatively slim front-to-back, but the decisions to use an 11" bass driver and to place the midrange above the tweeter add up to significant frontal area.
That description seemed to correlate very well with the perceived subjective balance. The Mezzo did sound a touch rich and heavy, but only a touch—I dare say a slightly larger room, or one with greater low-frequency absorption, might suit it even better. The sound was also just a shade laid-back and reticent, especially in the way voices were projected—yet not sufficiently so as to spoil my enjoyment, even at very low listening levels. Though I tend to favor a more open and forward upper midband, I had little trouble living with and even getting to like the Mezzo's slightly laid-back and…
It's a spring day, midweek, and I'm behind the desk of the small-town library where I work part-time. A woman comes in, late 60s, maybe 70. There is a quietness about her, as if time has asked her to shrink a little. She's local, but we've never met. "Laura," she offers. Her handshake is firm.
Laura tells me she's heard through a mutual friend that I have a high-end music system and write for Stereophile. Her husband, Ted, loved the magazine.
Ted, she says, died a decade ago, at 60. She recounts how, a few months later, she met up with someone to hand over many boxes of old…