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In Reply to: RE: Okay, a serious, non-obtuse, Stereophile (the clue) review thread posted by rebbi on December 14, 2014 at 06:18:15
...with not having a second reviewer comment on the review like TAS used to do in the day.
The speaker sounds a bit quirky and the reviewer tried a number of things to get it to sound better, like someone who bought it would.
The measurements in this case bear out what the reviewer described so it's difficult to argue with what he heard.
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Please see comments from the designer of (the clue) elsewhere in this thread. Both listening and testing were conducted with incorrect set-up; his comments include cogent elaboration on the matter.
...they followed the manufacturer's instructions carefully like any audiophile who purchased the speaker would.
Were the instructions wrong? Misleading? Incomplete?
What is the designer trying to say?
Perhaps it was his room, but that seems unlikely.
Every listening space is unique.
The speaker's designer is only saying that a speaker interfaces with different rooms differently - particularly when optimum performance depends on correct room boundary coupling. The reviewer gave us to believe that he is well-familiar with setting up speakers for which such coupling is critical (having been the Audio Note distributor in the 90s). His conclusions regarding (the clue) are quite correct - when the speaker receives insufficient boundary reinforcement (lean bass, thin vocals, lack of warmth).
We don't know how closely the reviewer followed the general set-up instructions in the Quick-Start Installation Guide; he said he "more or less" followed them. From the results, we strongly suspect that he followed them "less."
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