For me, 2007 started on a high. I was able to hear in the New Year with a system from Ensemble of Switzerland, and after a couple of weeks, I really didn't want to see it go. Earlier Ensemble systems were based on a diminutive standmount speaker, but the current Figura is a big yet visually-elegantrnfloorstander. For my system review [March issue], it came with the excellent (if idiosyncratic) Dirondo CD player and Fuoco hybrid amplifier. With the Figura, there was grace, refinement and musicality, banishing that old suspicion that Ensemble products only worked at their best with small-scale, intimate music. I enjoyed every minute with them.
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