In Reply to: RE: Do you get goose bumps reading reviews and ads? posted by Mark Man on June 25, 2015 at 08:21:59:
There are hundreds of speakers with pretensions to be high fidelity available in the world. E-state cannot listen to them all. Somehow, anyone who wants to audition speakers must find some manageable way of picking out the speakers he wants to audition. Some speakers are just eliminated due to circumstances beyond his control, some by conscious decisions. E-stat knows this but is just playing with me by picking a sentence out of context and applying it do a different context.
I don't change my equipment very often, either. I have tried to get equipment as good as needed. Going from memory, I got my preamp about 1993, my subwoofer in the late 90's, my speakers about 2005, and my CDP a few years ago and a receiver a few years ago to use as a tuner and spare amp, if needed.
My history with speakers is that I got Kef 104s in 1976, Quad ESL-63s in 1993, and Paradigm Signature S2s in 2005. While trying to choose main speakers, I got PSB Stratus Minis in 2004 with the intention of putting them in the family room, where they work wonderfully well for movies.
I use 12 gauge speaker cables I got in the 1980s, interconnects as needed, nothing expensive, as they should make no audible difference. When reviewers show they can hear differences with controlled DBTs, I will start to believe them.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Do you get goose bumps reading reviews and ads? - Pat D 14:30:19 06/25/15 (12)
- Red Herring alert - E-Stat 16:02:42 06/25/15 (11)
- RE: Red Herring alert, more E-Stat Dogma attack ... - A.Wayne 04:17:21 06/26/15 (4)
- RE: Red Herring alert, more E-Stat Dogma attack ... - morricab 15:20:45 07/06/15 (2)
- RE: Red Herring alert, more E-Stat Dogma attack ... - DrChaos 16:45:48 07/09/15 (0)
- RE: Red Herring alert, more E-Stat Dogma attack ... - A.Wayne 20:12:34 07/06/15 (0)
- I never expected you - E-Stat 05:23:38 06/26/15 (0)
- RE: Red Herring alert - Pat D 20:21:53 06/25/15 (5)
- Conversely, Pat... there have been some reviewers whom IF they did NOT like them... made a point of listening - Cleantimestream 10:02:25 06/28/15 (0)
- RE: Red Herring alert - E-Stat 05:30:50 06/26/15 (3)
- RE: Red Herring alert - Pat D 15:22:38 06/26/15 (2)
- RE: Red Herring alert - E-Stat 15:30:26 06/26/15 (1)
- Misdirection alert! - Pat D 18:01:00 06/26/15 (0)