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In Reply to: RE: Confession time: Have you ever "tricked" your own ears? posted by genungo on September 11, 2014 at 08:14:29
Most recently, I was forced to put back in service a pair of speakers I had replaced twice but never sold. When the most recent ones went into the shop, I put the old ones back, just to have something to listen to. They are now CLEARLY better sounding than their two predecessors. This, after a 10-year Rip Van Winkle snooze.
But of course, after that disturbing epiphany, I don't trust what I'm hearing NOW :-)
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Hope I haven't asked you this already, Dave, but what is the reason you bought the Gallo satellites & sub as opposed to the 3.5's? I still remember being very surprised at how good the original 3's sounded when I heard them at a show in NYC years ago. Are the sats & sub even better?
The combo of Strada/TR-3 sub use exactly the same superior-sounding drivers as the Gallo Reference 3.5. Advantage for me is that the subs are self-powered, so all the precious 12 watts per channel provided by my SET monoblocks can be directed to the mids and upper frequencies while the low end gets 300 wpc from the built-in sub amps.
Yes, and this is why I now NEVER sell anything until I've had enough time to determine the new component is actually better. Got burnt more than once by selling off the "old" to finance the "new"... only to find out I should have kept the "old". Now when I sense that "new" component is missing something after a few weeks of listening, I'm able to slip the "old" back in to compare. I'd have to say, the "old" has won at least half of these acid tests and ends up back in the system.
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