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In Reply to: RE: Stereophile Coverage Backs Your Claim. posted by MikeCh on October 14, 2014 at 15:56:37
To me, the main value of the reviews is that, based on your own experience and opinions expressed by the reviewer, you kind of "get to know" him - and that helps to establish certain degree of trust. Not literally, of course, but after a while you know whose opinion is more likely to resonate with your own - and whose you can safely ignore.
Case in point: I certainly feel somewhat "in tune" with M. Fremer's opinions, after his less than flattering Bryston monos review.
With that in mind, and based on the coverage by Herb Reichert that you linked to, I know whose opinion I need to take with a huge grain of salt.
the "perfect amp" was an Emotiva XPA 200 ($399). - a'aight then, whatever you say.
So many systems have all these good audiophile traits but play music in a woeful joyless manner - again, whatever. Not my experience at all.
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Experiences hopefully widen as one grows older. However, it's tough to do if you're locked into preconceived notions, who's opinions you can blindly trust/reject, and other such things, etc.
There's a growing number of positive comments about the LXMini debut at RMAF, so there's no need to base your preconceived negativity on this particular Stereophile report. IMO.
Get out and hear a pair for yourself. Linkwitz will likely be demo them again at the next Burning Amp Festival.
p.s. I also think you're taking the Emotiva reference by the SP reviewer out of context. (Not seeing the forest for the trees). There's also the fact that the LX521 (and LXMini) can sound different/better when used with top-shelf amplification (which is what prompted my reply in the first place).
Could these speakers be driven by a robust 24 watt SET amplifier? Does it need high power SS?
I think I spent enough bandwidth trying to explain it, but whatever.
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