Its been a while.  It took a while for it to get here and then for various reasons (mostly to do with not having the time to mess with it), I've only just had a chance to play with this thing.

Its good and bad really. 

The good is it sounds very good indeed, the most noticable difference being in the bass - much, much better controlled, stop start fast and seems to go considerably lower.  After an hour or so, I wouldn't say its noticably worse anywhere else than the Kat88 either - perhaps not quite so 3D.  But the overall effect is that they sound bigger, punchier, deeper and louder.

The bad news is the fan noise - far too intrusive.  So much so that I can't honestly get a handle on what it sounds like at my more normal listening levels.

This thing has definitely been gigged as a dent to the corner of fascia attests, so I suspected its been used quite hard, so I had a looksee inside.  Its filthy with brown dust.  The fans have certainly seen better days.  Now the interesting thing is that they pretty much look like ordinary PC fans to these eyes and attach to the circuit board with the sort of plugs you get off a PC power supply.  Doesn't look like they would be hard to replace.

So it raises the question ... silent PC fans - are they really silent, do they stay silent, which are the best?

If nothing else it has proved to me that these Spendors really do appreciate more welly than my little 36 watter can provide.