Both with music as well as in home cinema operation, the PLATINUM ULTRA set from quadral gives an impressive and convincing performance. Its linear and neutral acoustic configuration ensures consistently high-quality sound and its dynamics and verve make for pure listening pleasure, even in quite large rooms. This combination of unquestionable quality and an enormous enjoyment factor deserves an award: a "Highlight" from audiovision.


Highlight



very good 87/100

You won’t find a better configured and matched tweeter in this price class – even when measured on different axes, the RiCom unit remains fascinatingly linear. ... The quadral speaker’s muscular performance already showed in an enhanced degree of efficiency – this speaker aims to and can handle high volume levels.


VERY GOOD

TOP CLASS

Value for money: VERY GOOD

Expressive, volume-stable, exciting: The quadral PLATINUM ULTRA set makes multi-channel listening an emotional experience. The quadral PLATINUM ULTRA 5.1 set impressed us with powerful, expressive and exciting sound reproduction. This multi-channel ensemble is fairly priced and guarantees true home cinema flair. The active subwoofer with its enormous volume-handling capacity delivers a solid, vigorous sonic foundation at all times, and picks up points with excellent depth and minimal flow noise. With its impressive sound diffusion and highly expressive performance in the fundamental frequencies, the centre speaker enables masterly reproduction of voices and effects. The two ULTRA 7 front units likewise impress with their superb acoustic performance, and deliver an extremely homogeneous and coherent sonic picture, making them ideal for the reproduction of virtually all sorts of source material. The ULTRA 2 bookshelf speakers are impressive for their lively reproduction of effects but are also absolutely spoton when the AV receiver is running in multi-channel stereo mode. All of the PLATINUM ULTRA speakers make a highly positive impact with a seamless crossover between the mid and treble ranges. However, the very last ounce of brilliance in the trebles with this set of speakers is sacrificed in favour of the excellent volume stability (for those for whom nothing but the very highest degrees of brilliance will do, quadral has speakers such as the CERTO in its product range). For fans of powerful, room-filling and exciting multi-channel sound reproduction, on the other hand, the PLATINUM ULTRA set is an excellent choice.


You will find the complete test report
at: www.areadvd.de

Both with music as well as in home cinema operation, the PLATINUM ULTRA set from quadral gives an impressive and convincing performance. Its linear and neutral acoustic configuration ensures consistently high-quality sound and its dynamics and verve make for pure listening pleasure, even in quite large rooms. This combination of unquestionable quality and an enormous enjoyment factor deserves an award: a "Highlight" from audiovision.


Highlight



very good 87/100

Expressive, volume-stable, exciting: The quadral PLATINUM ULTRA set makes multi-channel listening an emotional experience. The quadral PLATINUM ULTRA 5.1 set impressed us with powerful, expressive and exciting sound reproduction. This multi-channel ensemble is fairly priced and guarantees true home cinema flair. The active subwoofer with its enormous volume-handling capacity delivers a solid, vigorous sonic foundation at all times, and picks up points with excellent depth and minimal flow noise. With its impressive sound diffusion and highly expressive performance in the fundamental frequencies, the centre speaker enables masterly reproduction of voices and effects. The two ULTRA 7 front units likewise impress with their superb acoustic performance, and deliver an extremely homogeneous and coherent sonic picture, making them ideal for the reproduction of virtually all sorts of source material. The ULTRA 2 bookshelf speakers are impressive for their lively reproduction of effects but are also absolutely spoton when the AV receiver is running in multi-channel stereo mode. All of the PLATINUM ULTRA speakers make a highly positive impact with a seamless crossover between the mid and treble ranges. However, the very last ounce of brilliance in the trebles with this set of speakers is sacrificed in favour of the excellent volume stability (for those for whom nothing but the very highest degrees of brilliance will do, quadral has speakers such as the CERTO in its product range). For fans of powerful, room-filling and exciting multi-channel sound reproduction, on the other hand, the PLATINUM ULTRA set is an excellent choice.


You will find the complete test report
at: www.areadvd.de

“... This speaker capably handles volume levels of which many a floorstander would be proud.... The PLATINUM’s chassis units impress with perfect teamwork – and that’s verified by HomeVision’s measurements. ... Alongside audiophile virtues such as precision and fine aural contouring, the ULTRA 2 thus gains in terms of efficiency. The PLATINUM ULTRA 2 speakers gave everything they had right from the very first note, as if they on no account wished to identify themselves as compact units. And without the slightest trace of any superficial, desperate-for-effects type of sound. On the contrary. The new quadral speakers captivated the ears and hearts of the jury with truly musical virtues by giving a masterly reading of Paolo Conte’s “Via con me” („Best of”/Zounds), effortlessly bringing out every last grain of the singer’s hoarse, sexy voice. The ULTRA 2 expertly interwove analytical capabilities with what for this price class must surely be a unique feel for timbres. ...


Test verdict: GOOD

Value for money: OUTSTANDING

Both with music as well as in home cinema operation, the PLATINUM ULTRA set from quadral gives an impressive and convincing performance. Its linear and neutral acoustic configuration ensures consistently high-quality sound and its dynamics and verve make for pure listening pleasure, even in quite large rooms. This combination of unquestionable quality and an enormous enjoyment factor deserves an award: a "Highlight" from audiovision.


Highlight



very good 87/100

Expressive, volume-stable, exciting: The quadral PLATINUM ULTRA set makes multi-channel listening an emotional experience. The quadral PLATINUM ULTRA 5.1 set impressed us with powerful, expressive and exciting sound reproduction. This multi-channel ensemble is fairly priced and guarantees true home cinema flair. The active subwoofer with its enormous volume-handling capacity delivers a solid, vigorous sonic foundation at all times, and picks up points with excellent depth and minimal flow noise. With its impressive sound diffusion and highly expressive performance in the fundamental frequencies, the centre speaker enables masterly reproduction of voices and effects. The two ULTRA 7 front units likewise impress with their superb acoustic performance, and deliver an extremely homogeneous and coherent sonic picture, making them ideal for the reproduction of virtually all sorts of source material. The ULTRA 2 bookshelf speakers are impressive for their lively reproduction of effects but are also absolutely spoton when the AV receiver is running in multi-channel stereo mode. All of the PLATINUM ULTRA speakers make a highly positive impact with a seamless crossover between the mid and treble ranges. However, the very last ounce of brilliance in the trebles with this set of speakers is sacrificed in favour of the excellent volume stability (for those for whom nothing but the very highest degrees of brilliance will do, quadral has speakers such as the CERTO in its product range). For fans of powerful, room-filling and exciting multi-channel sound reproduction, on the other hand, the PLATINUM ULTRA set is an excellent choice.


You will find the complete test report
at: www.areadvd.de