I heard them in a shop...they were on a small class A amp I think.
They sounded that good, they shouldn't be allowed to at the price.
Initially I though I was looking at 3000€ class, which basicly is somehow the impression they give.
I have Yamaha NS1000 on class A & after being told those were only 1000€ got me thoughtful for a while.
Not that I'd be suggesting they'd beat NS1000...it was just a 5 minute standby-listening,
but still...how well they did considering what I am used to, really impressed me.
I was kind of astonished I possibly could live with that w/o any issues.
They are very well balanced, I felt good resolution and enough foundation to portray bass registers fine w/o any hint of being bass-heavy or such.
A tad on the warmer side of presentation, but also w/o appearing to be couloured,,just enough you feel at home, not in a sound lab..
They were not played in yet / fresh from the box then has to be said,
as to my astonishment the Dali Menuet we tried after that, beat them clearer than I thought would be possible.
Beat them in overall musical presentation.
But- as I said- I don't think this comparison was entirely fair as the Lintons were obviously stone cold out of the package...I'd like to hear Dali Menuet vs. Lintons another time when the contest is fairer.
My guess is the Dali would still beat them, but I remain hugely impressed by the Lintons.
I heard the new Yamahas 5000? that day too on some insanely expensive tubes, and from plain sound,
given the free choice I would have taken the Lintons home w/o hesitation.
Last we tried was Harbeth P3...and that was no contest to the Dalis again.
Ok, twice the price you'd expect something, but even given this the P3 was amazing.
The Dali Menuet is insanely good vfm, so to beat that clearly still, is not easy.
Rather I think the Dali is a dangerous contender for some concepts out there costing considerably more.
All 3 of those are amazing vfm,,I don't consider the Lintons the 'looser' of my comparison.
I like the looks absolutely and they really impressed me.
I'd probably have no issues having those as my daily for a while if I do not loose the NS1000 instead.
Still my tip is to let them start against the Dali Menuet to see if that doesn't suit you more.
I still struggle a little bit to get my head around how the Menuet managed to do so well against an obviously very good 3-way design.
I liked the looks of the Lintons the best in fact and the manufacturing quality, the haptics and looks even if you get close to Macro distance is outstandingly impressive.
You keep asking youself how they can do such for this kind of money,,in fact this is the very question in the article you refer to.
But I met them in person accidentally first and started to google up about them afterwards.
For a bigger room the Lintons may well be more suitable than the Dalis & we didn't make any special effort to try the exact lower limits with Bachs lower organ registers or such.
I imagine the Dali will go out of breath in this discipline somewhat earlier than the Lintons.
In the mid-region of presentation though,,,the Dalis are tiny monsters in their class, imo.
