In Reply to: Two GREAT Loudspeakers: One sounds "Wrong," One sounds "Right..." posted by Rich H on September 18, 2001 at 08:57:40:
Aucostic music in real life sound warm, focusing on the whole picture with details not so very forward. Some speakers do sound like this some don´t.
With correct timbre you lose some details or rather you have to listen for them to hear them. In a shop we tend to think this is wrong and we will buy the more detailed speaker thinking this is more correct. As fewer and fewer of us do visit a consert or hear real live aucoustic music fewer will know this is wrong.Some speaker manufactors know this and accept the market as it is. They will build very detailed, lean sounding speakers. Sell truckloads and live happily ever after.
Some do think that music is the reference and will not budge an inch from the warm sound it needs to sound real. They tend to build speaker that stay the same for a longer period of time, are "unsexy" and -in some cases - use poor marketing. But the sound is true. As a customer you don´t upgrade very often. A Harbeth user said: They are for people who like to listen to music for a long time, 30-40 years or so.
I do suspect that you are more in the latter category and the Mega speaker is in former?
cheers
Michael Y
The mega speaker to are closer to latter group
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- Real timbre or not so real timbre - Michael Y 00:15:18 09/19/01 (0)