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In Reply to: RE: Cute, but flawed review. Positioning speakers in room is "HIFI 101 posted by mkuller on December 17, 2014 at 15:21:20
>didn't he position them specifically like the manufacturer recommended?
Yes, exactly as recommended in the owner's manual. If the advice in the
manual was incorrect, it is not the reviewer's responsibility to help out
the manufacturer as an unpaid consultant, which is one interpretation of
the manufacturer's comment.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
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Agreed. It seems to me that Herb made an effort to position the speakers according to the designer's specs. I don't see how he had any obligation to contact the manufacturer when they didn't perform properly. If they were broken or obviously damaged that would be different but in this case I don't see how he did anything wrong. He simply called it as he heard it. Isn't that the point?
...we are able to change the way they sound, swapping the source, but also the room interaction by physically moving them around. I also believe the most seasoned audiophiles would consider 'recommendation' just as a starting point.
“Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn’t. - Charles Bukowski
Most of the time, most, when I move my gear and speakers around the changes are not glaringly noticeable. I don't really use any scientific method other than the golden triangle. My rooms are not big enough to make movements without messing up the utility of the room.
I have been experimenting with some small, affordable JBL bookshelf speakers and it was my first attempt at placing them more into the middle of the room free of the side and back walls by 4+ feet which places them in a near field situation to my recliner for listening. I am enjoying that position more than I thought with sonic positions of instruments floating freer than I thought they wood.
If HR didn't like them his experience at the show may have been overshadowed by some other factors of which we can never know. Everyone wants their gear to be reviewed favorably, but sometimes a piece of gear does not float someone's boat. I feel their pain.
I looked at the measurement graphs and there are some severe issues in the chamber, but that huge spike in the waterfall plot is much different than I've seen in most speaker measurements, and that must account for some abnormality. The step response is also very slow it appears. Very different from other speakers for sure.
Jim Tavegia
That outplayed (when didn't catch on fire) anything before and after I owned, including the highly praised Pass Aleph 3. *See Golden Tube Audio Se-40
“Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn’t. - Charles Bukowski
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