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Re: Reasonable insanity

Posted by John Swenson (A) on June 10, 2003 at 12:30:49

In Reply to: Re: Reasonable insanity posted by Tony Glynn on June 10, 2003 at 12:08:46:

This reminds me of my first Sterophile show (MANY years ago), most rooms were playing very loud boomy music, except for the Vandersteen room. Richard himself was playing DJ at a nice little system with his just released 2Cis, all ARC electronics and a turntable (I don't remember what it was), he played vey good music at decent levels, I kept on coming back to that room to let my ears heal before venturing out again, it was like a breath of fresh air. (guess which speakers I wound up buying)

One dealer had this $150k system put together in a large room with lots of people packing in, it sounded all right but didn't play MUSIC, at one point they demonstrated their little "cheap" system (only $10k), THAT sounded MUCH better, it was real music.

One dealer DID have a megabuck system that sounded really good (all ARC electronics again and Thiel CS5.0 speakers), but that was the only one, all the other places that sounded good were relatively speaking inexpensive systems.

What I came away from that was, its much harder to make a mega-buck system sound good than a cheap system. I guess thats why I eventually wound up here in the land of "as simple as possible" audio.

John S.

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