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Green with envy would have you covered too.
Ditto if overall economics had you blue. Though the hammy Luna's rear does look a mite porcine, it won't swallow pennies like a piggy bank. Time to cash out performance specs before we go color-blind.
The original Luna's published specs read as a 62Hz-25kHz response, 4-ohm nominal impedance, 86dB sensitivity and 30w RMS power handling. The drivers were a 20mm Neodymium-powered silk dome and a 4" shielded mid/woofer. What had changed?
"Luna II keeps all the core characteristics of the original - material of the
enclosure, dimensions, assembly process etc.
The main change is in the mid/woofer. The new 4-inch Wavecor was especially made for small cubic volumes.
The power handling of the new Luna is twice that of the original Luna and now 80w RMS.
The sound has changed especially in the lows and mids. Naturally the xover and length of the port tube are different too. As a result
sensitivity has changed a tad. It's now 87dB, i.e. 1 decibel higher.
Kamen and Dobromir Dobrev of EBTB
"On paper the response looks very similar but listening tests show that the sound
is much more open and deeper now. The Luna II is also phase-aligned like the first Luna was. Basic performance specs are 59Hz - 25kHz with a 4-ohm nominal impedance. The price for premium colors adds 10% over the standard colors and all custom colors add a 20% surcharge. The floor stand is €299/pr. Here is a short YouTube video of the review pair Luna 2."
The basic performance graphs follow:
The second graph demonstrates the flexible meaning of 'nominal' impedance by fluctuating across 40 ohms with three steep peaks.
For €999 this seemed like a lot of speaker. In fact it shares its metallic pork belly with the €2.200/pr Terra III I'd reviewed 2 years ago yet sports a far more dispersion-optimized molded baffle [the Terra III is the second one from the left below, the Terra II with its perfectly flat baffle and sharp edges sits right next to it]. In either case it definitely stays as far clear of being just another boring box as its EBTB branding would suggest. Based on prior evidence, fit'n'finish also promised to operate on a very high niveau to tweak competitors. When a global recession prompts manufacturers to get this resourceful to make your money count, it's a good thing for all.
These various models obviously aren't to scale relative to each other.
