When one decides to absorb on a high-end home theatre system, you attending to the top AV brands out there. Buying decisions are difficult to accomplish and addition which receiver, amplifier and speakers to go for is a alarming task. We advised the Denon AVR-1912 a while aback and although a little pricey, we anticipation it was absolutely ablaze if it came to achievement and its features. The speakers we activated it on were the Obsidian 600 from Wharfedale, one of the added exceptional audio band-aid brands around. The Obsidian 600 itself doesn’t cover the woofer, but we accustomed a abstracted Wharfedale Diamond SW150 subwoofer for review. We activated the speakers with and after the woofer over the advance of the review.
Features and Design
In agreement of features, the Obsidian 600 is absolutely artlessly a set of 5 speakers. There are two floor-standers for the advanced audio channels, forth with a ample centre approach speaker. The ones we accustomed came with the Winter Maple finish, but there are three added appropriately adorable options. The Wharfedale Obsidian 600 speakers accept a actual chic airedale feel to them.
The foreground panels on the Obsidian 600 can be removed advertisement the drivers. If you aren’t afflicted by the looks of the speakers with the covers on, removing them should. The floor-stander advanced speakers accept four drivers in them. There are two 130mm mid-range drivers, a 200mm woofer drive and a 25mm tweeter. The centre approach includes the mids and highs, but excludes a bass driver. The woofer assemblage on the advanced floor-standers are placed on the sides. So, clashing a lot of added speakers, these are abysmal speakers and not actual flat. These are aloft from the arena by four spikes that buck the weight of the absolute setup. The centre apostle is collapsed and doesn’t accept any stands. The rear satellites cover a 100mm mid-range disciplinarian and a 25mm tweeter.
All of the connectors on the speakers are gold-plated and accept a screw-on apparatus to affix cables. Setting up the speakers is almost simple. The ports on the rear apostle face the back. The ones on the satellites are smaller, while the floor-standers accept beyond ports to breathe through.
Diamond SW-150 woofer
The SW150 isn’t the better of the subwoofers from Wharfedale’s stable, but they aren’t miniature, either. With its humongous 10-inch and 150W RMS output, it’s a able woofer for a mid-sized room. There are absolutely a few controls to play with and tweak. There’s a crossover about-face that helps you to bureaucracy the woofer to handle the abundance range, while the blow of the speakers yield affliction of the rest. There’s aswell a appearance ascendancy to accomplish abiding your subwoofer is able with your apostle setup. The anchorage on the SW150 point downwards. The advanced console cannot be opened.
The rear speakers are analogously abate and appear with no stands to abode them on. This is a accepted convenance in high-end audio equipment.
Performance
The Obsidian 600 already set up appropriately are appealing absorbing by themselves. The bite that you charge from the bass is acceptable for music enthusiasts, except for the soft, doughy bass that isn’t as abysmal and affluent as you’d like. Add the Diamond SW150 woofer to the blueprint and things get better. The defective low abundance bass is added complete and this works able-bodied for movies. In such speakers, adjustment and arrangement is important. Tweaking of the SW150 woofer is aswell analytical for it to function. With the amiss settings, the bass gets either anemic or about absent.
As far as data go, neither are the speakers defective in any accurate ambit of frequencies nor are they emphasising on any specific range. Distortion, too isn’t audible. The speakers accomplish able-bodied beyond all genres of music alignment from bedrock to metal to even classical.
The attenuate band of bass that surrounds the singer's articulation is able-bodied provided for, by the bass disciplinarian on the floor-standers. The SW150 alone bliss in for instruments such as the bass drum, the bass guitar and agnate instruments. There’s not abundant bond of instruments and complete break amid speakers is great. It’s aswell simple to abstract instruments in the track. This becomes a little added difficult as the aggregate goes up and the allowance acoustics appear into play.
Verdict
We advised the Wharfedale Obsidian 600 and Diamond SW150 on the Denon AVR-1912 receiver. The three plan rather able-bodied as a package. Performance and superior appear at a amount and there’s no acumen to accept that these affectionate of speakers would appear at awful affordable price. The Obsidian 600 and SW150 woofer advertise for Rs. 70,000 in India. Assuming that you acknowledge abundant superior music, accept appropriate allowance acoustics and of course, the money to carapace out for acceptable superior equipment, these are a acceptable set of speakers to consider.
Features and Design
In agreement of features, the Obsidian 600 is absolutely artlessly a set of 5 speakers. There are two floor-standers for the advanced audio channels, forth with a ample centre approach speaker. The ones we accustomed came with the Winter Maple finish, but there are three added appropriately adorable options. The Wharfedale Obsidian 600 speakers accept a actual chic airedale feel to them.
 The mighty Obsidian 600 |
 Large 10-inch driver on the subwoofer |
All of the connectors on the speakers are gold-plated and accept a screw-on apparatus to affix cables. Setting up the speakers is almost simple. The ports on the rear apostle face the back. The ones on the satellites are smaller, while the floor-standers accept beyond ports to breathe through.
Diamond SW-150 woofer
The SW150 isn’t the better of the subwoofers from Wharfedale’s stable, but they aren’t miniature, either. With its humongous 10-inch and 150W RMS output, it’s a able woofer for a mid-sized room. There are absolutely a few controls to play with and tweak. There’s a crossover about-face that helps you to bureaucracy the woofer to handle the abundance range, while the blow of the speakers yield affliction of the rest. There’s aswell a appearance ascendancy to accomplish abiding your subwoofer is able with your apostle setup. The anchorage on the SW150 point downwards. The advanced console cannot be opened.
 Port placed at the bottom of the woofer |
Performance
The Obsidian 600 already set up appropriately are appealing absorbing by themselves. The bite that you charge from the bass is acceptable for music enthusiasts, except for the soft, doughy bass that isn’t as abysmal and affluent as you’d like. Add the Diamond SW150 woofer to the blueprint and things get better. The defective low abundance bass is added complete and this works able-bodied for movies. In such speakers, adjustment and arrangement is important. Tweaking of the SW150 woofer is aswell analytical for it to function. With the amiss settings, the bass gets either anemic or about absent.
As far as data go, neither are the speakers defective in any accurate ambit of frequencies nor are they emphasising on any specific range. Distortion, too isn’t audible. The speakers accomplish able-bodied beyond all genres of music alignment from bedrock to metal to even classical.
 Impressive looks and equally impressive sound |
The attenuate band of bass that surrounds the singer's articulation is able-bodied provided for, by the bass disciplinarian on the floor-standers. The SW150 alone bliss in for instruments such as the bass drum, the bass guitar and agnate instruments. There’s not abundant bond of instruments and complete break amid speakers is great. It’s aswell simple to abstract instruments in the track. This becomes a little added difficult as the aggregate goes up and the allowance acoustics appear into play.
Verdict
We advised the Wharfedale Obsidian 600 and Diamond SW150 on the Denon AVR-1912 receiver. The three plan rather able-bodied as a package. Performance and superior appear at a amount and there’s no acumen to accept that these affectionate of speakers would appear at awful affordable price. The Obsidian 600 and SW150 woofer advertise for Rs. 70,000 in India. Assuming that you acknowledge abundant superior music, accept appropriate allowance acoustics and of course, the money to carapace out for acceptable superior equipment, these are a acceptable set of speakers to consider.
