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In Reply to: RE: NY Audio Show 2014 posted by saxman73 on October 12, 2014 at 14:57:51
Frankly, I don't understand how anyone can come away from these shows and those cardboard listening booths with a credible idea of how good or bad any of the gear might sound in a real life situation. As if it wasn't hard enough to evaluate speaker gear in a real brick n' mortar store with it's own dedicated listening room...
Headphone systems might be evaluated honestly in an audio show setting, but I wouldn't buy or recommend anything else based upon an audition at one of these circus shows. I would feel as good about buying gear sight unseen (sound unheard?) as I would buying gear based upon an audio show audition. For all we know, the gear that sounded the worst at an audio show might sound the best if listened to back at home.
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Remember when the magazines used to say that equipment couldn't be evaluated based upon what could be heard in a show setting? Now the writers all choose a "best of show" and do what can only be described as mini-reviews of virtually everything they see and hear.
Another one for the archives of "Strange but True".
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