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In Reply to: RE: JA is often surprised and puzzled . . . posted by Brian H P on August 17, 2015 at 12:29:03
>Carefully performed measurements don't lie -- they is what they am -- but
>a whole largely unquantifiable set of physical and psychological factors
>can influence one's subjective evaluation of a component's sound.
When I first started working with Martin Colloms in the late 1970s, Martin
told me that every now and again, every reviewer "falls in love" with an
undeserving product, ie, even with its faults, it does one specific thing
that the reviewer values so well that he overlooks all that it is doing
wrong.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
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Ah, that explains BJR's love for Totem Dreamcatcher which you found lacking in your measurements.'....in the past 28 years, I have never enjoyed music more through anything else, regardless of price.',gushed BJR, in spite of strong port resonances and elevated top octaves.
Good show.
Cheers
Bill
Sometimes the reviewer falls in love with an undeserving product. I think I'll renew my subscription. This has been very entertaining.
John and Mark,
I read the review and took in everything that was written. When I got to the end of the measurement results and read John's statement, it told me something very important... If I was interested in that particular speaker, I should probably give it a good audition before buying. So in the end Stereophile magazine did it's job. I got the impression of it's sound from Mark and some hard data from John, both being very useful.
I got an impression of its sound from JA's measurements and comments, and from JM . . . .
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