UPS came with a dolly today! After some grunting, the Essence sat before me ready to be hooked up to the little Leben 300xs. 15 watts of silky smoothness powered the beastly Essence up to party levels. A customer was listening to them as I cleaned some of his records. I said, “not bad for 15 watts eh?” He was baffled that it wasn’t much much more. Obviously they need a lot of break in but the first thing that I noticed after the first few notes was they had some bass and authority! They are definitely pushing some air! A step up from the Omen tweeters. The ribbon super tweeters on these sparkle!