However IMHE when confronted with a system that has relatively few compromises and particularly images well and is devoid of sibilance, everyone will drop their jaws and universally agree it is one of the best systems they have ever heard if not the very best.
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I think for many, there may need to be a deprogramming stage before they fully appreciate it, but once they do, they will have a hard time going back.
That video was mentally painful. Bud who has no clue talks to other bud who has no clue. What was the point? The room often gets in the way. The other thing that can get in the way is distortion at volume, something more expensive systems can excel at (by not having it), or at least having a consistent distortion profile. Those "great" demos are never played quietly.
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I think for many, there may need to be a deprogramming stage before they fully appreciate it, but once they do, they will have a hard time going back.
That video was mentally painful. Bud who has no clue talks to other bud who has no clue. What was the point? The room often gets in the way. The other thing that can get in the way is distortion at volume, something more expensive systems can excel at (by not having it), or at least having a consistent distortion profile. Those "great" demos are never played quietly.