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Re: Why the Borden article is useless…

Actually I think his point and mine is that we agree with you that it is nto that we don't want it or think it matters but that it is getting most ALL of the buzzword talk for the last 7-8 years and the other aspects are being completely ignored -- like his friend who said he only cares about the soundstage or the amp maker saying you'll get a stage from this to this like their talking penis enhancements.

Soundstaging and imaging are important in the sense that if the disc has a violin center left and a cello center right andtrumpet in the center then these should be where they're supposed to be. When I listen to me set-up I enjoy listening to say Miles Davis and being able to palpably fee and hear where each musician is. But if the sax is harder to the left by a foot than another speaker presents it how the hell am i going to be sure which is absolutely difinively the correct imaging - a big stage is not necessarily the RIGHT stage.

For instance one of my favorite speakers and one I touted for a long time in the reference 3a MM De Capo has a huge stage front to back -- but at the same time it created that front to back stage on every recording. It's still very good and everything but with another speaker I ended up buying back then I noticed on 3-4 recordings the speaker presented a very up-front stage one more balance and on the Loreena McKennit track which has a procession beyond the wall - this speaker sounded much like the De Capo. The difference is that this speaker adjusted to all the recording in a readably noticeable way while the De Capo did not - it had the distanced sound on everything. It's no knock on the De Capo because it is highly involving and has scale etc. But I like the De Capo for a bunch of these other things and so when people say they love it for the huge soundstage I think well ok but for me it's not reproducing what's on the disc but giving you the De Capo Soundstage whether it's on the disc or not. Lucky for the De Capo that it creates an inviting one most of the time.

I guess I would rather hear speakers that do all of those other things better than they're doing them. Not to pick on individual speakers because I like some from this company but the Totem Arro may image and soundstage great but it sounds boom and sizzly, lacks a cohesive sound and midrange richness. I'm hearing something highly off-putting tonally - imaging and soundstage champs they may very well be. It just boggles my mind that there are so many rave reviewed speakers that can;t even do sarah mcLachlan's voice plausibly while sitting at a piano. One voice, one piano and probably 90% of the speakers I have heard are hopelessly out to lunch trying to either let alone both. That would be fine if they could at least POUND for rock music like Motely Crue but most sure as heck don't have the pulse for that sort of thing.

But hey nothing is going to "perfect." Buy the illusion that fools you the most.



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