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Fascinated By GR Research Channel

Lately I've watched a number of the videos on GR Research's youtube channel and been very intrigued. If you aren't familiar with them, they design and sell some speakers, but most of their business is DIY speaker kits, and doing upgrades on customer's speakers. In the videos, they show how they measure the performance characteristics of speakers sent in and then explain the thought process and methodology of choosing improvements. 

If nothing else, anyone wanting to better understand the technical section of reviews (e.g. John Atkinson's in Stereophile), would likely learn something watching.

Another interesting aspect of these videos is the clear untangling of various manufacturers' choices in balancing cost for performance and the sonic impact of various compromises. 

Get your popcorn and check it out. 

I'm also curious to hear of your experiences with any of their kits or products and if your findings match their messaging. I've always understood that better parts quality will improve sonics, but this channel demonstrates exactly how with great clarity...fascinating! Cheers,

Spencer 

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Yesterday I saw a "response video" here:

https://youtu.be/zxlUYfpxNMY

I've watched Jay previously, and while he dumbs things down often to target a larger audience, you can tell he's worked with many high end systems and is good at calling out concerns that newbies may not know(e.g. cartridge output and phono stage matching). His overall vibe is like many traditional magazine reviews in that the words are 95% positivity, but he drops enough hints to read between the lines to get to the negatives. 

Get your popcorn ready, because he ordered a pair of GR's during the video and promised a full review, which he swears will be unbiased. His overly-defensive sidekick obviously saw a little of himself in Danny's video. This might evolve in a WWE direction. Cheers,

Spencer

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