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Thank you for a nice review. I would like to make a comment about reviewing and the Hifi News Article that was referred to by other posts. Reviewing is subjective. Reviewing provides a glimpse of the subject filtered through the tastes and expectations of the reviewer. No two reviewers will like the exact same type of sound, so on this point alone, no two reviews should ever see the subject in exactly the same way.

I would like to also point out that a speaker cannot make music on it's own. It requires a room to operate in and an amplifier to drive it, and these factors will "shape" its frequency response and performance. Even if reviewing were not subjective, one cannot hope to obtain the exact same mechanical result (as another reviewer), unless reviewing in the exact same room and with the exact same amplifier (and to a lesser extent source). So even at it's most objective, this reviewing business always contains significant variables from the room and electronics involved. I think that this factor accounts not only for the different opinions of reviewers but for the differences in measurements as well (of the same review subject).

Underneath the variables of set-up, I do think that speakers do have identifiable voices; voices that skilled reviewers (such as yourself) can reveal. Thank you for taking the time to assess this product.


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