6 moons

The Trinnov ST2 HiFi received a Blue Moon Award from the renowned website 6moons.

Following are a few quotes about the so called “French army knife”:

Active Crossover

Trinnov’s intelligent crossover alignment dramatically reduces the effort required to set up gain and delay for each driver.

Calibration

The calibration is almost child’s play but must be performed accurately.

Sonic experience

Every audiophile generally cares a great deal about sound quality yet are they all prepared to build their own sound? That’s really the main question Trinnov’s invasion into the home market asks. After all, Trinnov deals with compensation, nothing else. If you are dogmatically attached to sonic purity and straight-wire logic, it may be difficult to embrace all the enhancement subtleties the ST2-HiFi proposes. Trinnov calls for adjustments to the sound whose subjective response could be overwhelmingly positive to fly in the face of puritan notions.

DAC

As it turned out, the quality of Trinnov’s internal DAC was more than satisfactory. Even though the French device is reasonably priced considering its extreme versatility, the D/A converter section stands comparison with most high-end competitors without consideration of price.

Multi-Point measurement.

I experimented with both single and multi-point calibration and definitely preferred the multi-measurement profile to the exclusive sweet-spot profile. In my case it allowed for further flexibility and delivered a more liquid and relaxing sound than single-point calibration.

Fine-Tuning.

I think anyone will have to spend many hours and days to explore the various options this device makes available

Bass Management

The ST2-HiFi is one of the most efficient tools to properly set up a 2.1 or 2.2 system thanks to its advanced bass management.

Listening test

On symphonic music pieces the soundstage seemed definitely more accurate sporting greater identification of each instrument’s position. Another stunner was the fact that it became quite impossible to locate the speakers in my room. The phase optimization really is an impressive feature of the Trinnov.
The ST2 HiFi’s overall performance was outstanding in terms of tone, timing and soundstaging. I can easily declare that the Trinnov added coherence and delivered the highest fidelity to my usual playback chain I’ve yet encountered.

Conclusion 

Summing up, the Trinnov ST2-HiFi is a definite bargain given its price and astonishing versatility. It represents a broad range of features that will have you reconsider your overall playback chain.

 

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