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| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? @desalvo55 Interesting to see you owned the MBL 126 speakers! I owned the previous model, the MBL 121s, for many years. What I liked about the 121s is they are a bit bigger and fuller range compared with the newer 126. The other thing is, w... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often meh. Some audiophiles are "amp first" seekers, others are "speaker first" seekers. If you are an "amp first" audiophile and in love with lower powered amps, that will limit your choices. If you are "speaker first" then your choices are mostly w... | |
| Hales Design Group Transcendence 5 Grill Cloth Sorry I don't have an answer for you. I owned the Hales T5s and still think back on them fondly. Amazing speakers. Incredible imaging, soundstaging and at the time almost peerless for accurate instrumental timbre. I still have my Hales T1 moni... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! bipod72 I see no reason to denigrate how anyone else enjoys music, be it their choice of room furnishing, single chair or whatever. If that is the way an individual likes to focus on listening to music, how could that be "insulting" to the music... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! curtdr Yes the "underused dedicated home theater" has been a theme that has often cropped up in the dedicated home theater forums (e.g. AVSForum). One really should go in with a realistic idea of how many people will likely use the theater and h... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! @cd318 Reviewers exist primarily to promote product. Really? I used to review a bit, and have known many audio reviewers. I can't think of a single one who thinks of themselves that way, or who approach their reviewing just to promot... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! I’m not as concerned about reviewer’s rooms as many others here. Yes, of course room acoustics affect speaker performance. It’s not for nothing room EQ is all the rage these days. However...I’m less in to hand-wringing over the photos of re... | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... @waytoomuchstuff I was still getting a little midrange glare from your syntax, but since I put my desktop monitor on Nordost isolation Kones, that's cleared up. Thank goodness! | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... ozzy, Short version: Giving reasons justifying my approach is not an attack on yours, or a demand you should approach the hobby as I do (or anyone at ASR does). You-do-you. Short enough I hope? ;-) | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... @waytoomuchstuff Thanks. I find that the blanket dismissal of the value of ASR by some here mirrors the dogmatic blanket dismissal by some on ASR of places like Audiogon. They are mirror images of the same heels-dug-in mindset. I have tr... | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... cleeds, I can understand why someone might think that from what I just wrote. But if someone were familiar with lots of my stuff on audiogon as well as on ASR, they would understand why I'm here. I really enjoy discussing the subjective nature ... | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... If someone is producing an argument in defense of their belief that doesn't make sense, then it's reasonable to be skeptical. And if they are also using a method known to be fallible in evaluating their own claim, that's double reason to be skept... | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... I think it's prof vs. God. I have no problem with that debate either. This isn't the forum, though ;-) God created all these different cables but somehow they all sound the same according to prof. What a waste of resources. Raising stra... | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... ozzy, Ok. (I've tried 'quality cables,' nordost among them, and there is clearly nothing 'amis' with my system, as other audiophiles who have heard it know). I am no more pushing ASR on you, than you are pushing your view on me. We are exch... | |
| AUDIO SCIENCE REVIEW and $50 to spend......... ozzy, If I found the sound of my system to be just as good with the cheap cables, why wouldn't I be happy I didn't need to spend extra money on the expensive ones? And...Why are you ignoring this: prof: As to cables: I always try to be ca... |