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In Reply to: RE: Stereophile reviewer thrown under the bus posted by MZisserson on August 15, 2015 at 18:56:05
>I would question if JA heard what he did because he saw it measured, or
>once he saw the measurement he used it to explain what he heard...
That is a great question. It is why Stereophile's reviewers don't see any
measurements until after they have submitted their reviews.
Obviously, the exception is myself, which is why I don't do any measuring
of a product I am reviewing until after I have done the bulk of the
auditioning. In the case of the Wilson-Benesch speaker, I heard the upper-
midrange emphasis with the MLSSA signal as soon as I started measuring it
and once something is heard, it is very difficult to unhear.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
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John,
I noticed that J.M. said he listened with the speakers completely toed in to the listening postion. What toe-in angle did you listen at?
My reason for asking is that the high crossover frequency that Wilson Benesch uses in their designs will make the speakers very sensitive to toe-in due to the mismatched dispersion characteristics of the drivers. And in all their demos they seem to have the speakers pointed straight ahead.
The W-B tweeter used in their Geometry series speakers has a shallow waveguide, which presumably helps improve the handover. I would not expect the waveguide to affect the midrange balance though.
It should sound fantastic with toobs and bright and horrible with SS ...
But if anyone wants to call the Luxman M-700 "tube-like" in its musical refinement, I will not throw down the gauntlet.
I don't own any gauntlets...
jm
Is "toob like" a positive ....?
> I don't do any measuring of a product I am reviewing until after I have
> done the bulk of the auditioning.For example, with the AudioQuest JitterBug that I reviewed in the September
issue, I spent a day trying and failing to find significant measurable
differences made by the thing _after_ I had completed my auditioning and
had been convinced it made a significant improvement to sound quality.If I had done the measurements first, it would have been all too easy for me
to dismiss the JitterBug as having no audible effect.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Edits: 08/16/15 08/16/15
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