Nope, do not care.
Does anyone on AG truly care anymore about objectivity & sincerity of Magazine reviews?
The latest cover story In the Absolute Sound triumphs the latest 3rd generation YG loudspeakers & their very best, latest technology. While the accolades commence (& do they ever), they only say, "the aluminum- coned midrange driver are carried over from the series 2" conspicuously omitting to mention nothing whatsoever has been done to it - ever (unlike virtually all their competitors who've had numerous major improvements to their MRs). It’s exactly the same driver that came with the speaker when it was first introduced decades plus ago. Their claims for it have not been verified by any 3rd party ever & no audio company has tried to copy their aluminum drivers ever, either. Entry level Paradigms perhaps, but they have the wisdom to understand aluminum cannot be made to compete with the beryllium they use on their upper end product.
Regarding the revised silk dome tweeter, "you may think your speakers excel in this area but until you’ve heard something like the 3s...you may have never heard true high frequency refinement". So a complete dismissal (with no comparisons of any kind of course) of all Diamond, Beryllium, ribbon, electrostatic etc. tweeters, just like that.
Is it just me or is there (from the Wizard of Oz) a clearly implied, "Ignore that man behind the curtain! !" message, as YG simultaneously has a full page, 4 color ad in the same issue & has been an extremely heavy advertiser for years in the magazine?
I’m reminded of the con man’s credo - You can fool some of the people all the time & all the people some of the time - & that’s enough. I had thought that’s not an especially good, long term business model. Maybe I’m wrong on this last, here.
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Most (especially meaningful valid) replies & not one liners - are about magazine reviews, YG Acoustics as this was intended to be. YG represent an odd or even wierd lack of integrity indisputably unique to them as specifically stated. In a semi major high end co. its sociologically, commercially & acoustically interesting & certainly worth noting. If someone doesn't want to be curious & interested enough (in the audio industry in particular but in general as well) then G-d bless, but snideness & cynicism for its own sake is truly sad & demeans those evincing it & all discussions contaminated by it. |
@bdp24 …and don’t forget The Sensible Sound…
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I have heard their speakers, and while they are not among my favorites, they sound like many other modern, high end speakers. I don’t hear any unique qualities that I can attribute to any aspect of their design such that I cannot begin to suspect the aluminum midrange cones are guilty for any shortcomings. So what if YG hasn’t changed that aspect of its design; perhaps they got it right from the beginning. There are a lot of speaker manufacturers that have not changed fundamental aspects of their design in many decades, such as SoundLab and Magneplanar, and people continue to like their sound. My midrange driver is a compression driver that, to my personal taste, has few rivals. The driver is very expensive but it delivers detail and microdynamic subtleties without being harsh and etched sounding. It certainly was high tech when it was made sometime around 1939. |
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