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In Reply to: RE: Not true then... posted by josh358 on March 3, 2011 at 14:58:03:
I never even auditioned anything based on a TAS review. My dealer had Kef 104 speakers, which sounded better than just about anything else in town, and I read a couple of British reviews who liked them. One of them supplied some measurements, though nothing like those supplied nowadays by Soundstage and Stereophile. I followed the methods laid out by Julian Hirsch, who suggested auditioning speakers with a good variety of familiar recordings. At the time, I discovered I had no really good choral recordings.
Before I got the Quad ESL-63's, I had auditioned them several times over the years. I also had read a number of reviews, including Dick Heyser's not so favorable one in Audio, with measurements, of course, and quite favorable reviews in Stereo Review and High Fidelity. So I have experienced a lot of room placement issues with dipoles.
Several years ago, I went to wide dispersion forward radiating speakers and haven't looked back.
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