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Welcome back - my thoughts

There certainly seems to be a trend over the last decade to achieve a "reviewer's" sound, which kind of mimic's what a mastering engineer needs to do his job - utter transparency. This leads one ultimately to unforgiving sound, which has been sold to the audiophile public as TRUTH.

In fact, these ultimately utterly revealing and "truthful" sounding systems have not been enjoyed by many of my audiophile friends when they heard them at local meetings, shows and such. Everyone seems to praise "lesser" systems that convey more of a sense of music, rather than "truth". Basically, I've found that a system needs to get your toes tapping for me to enjoy it. Yes, better dynamics (micro and macro) and well as full extension on the bottom end and good soundstaging and imaging all contribute to the enjoyment I receive from a system. But a super-sonic top end does not. I want it to portray cymbals and tinkly things in their tinkly space, but I loath those metal tweeters and many ribbons that shriek at you.

The bottom line ... beware of any review that says you need very high quality components upstage to get the best out of a given set of speakers.

Enjoy,
Bob

A gentleman is best defined as someone who knows how to play the accordion ... and doesn't.

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