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Re: My Take on These Speakers v. MF & JA

I'm afraid I will disappoint you as I never thought these speakers were worthy of a very extended listen from me, much less a review. I could not stand listen to them for a very long time, though I was looking for new speakers at the time.

As Fremer wrote, "the Silverback's silk dome won't please everyone—sometimes I felt it sounded a bit forward or 'hashy.'" That's how I felt they sounded all the time I heard them. And they were being driven with Sim Audio electronics with which I was very familiar and which could not have been responsible for what I was hearing.

To JA's credit he expresses "disappointment" with the speakers' measured performance.

Nevertheless Fremer concludes, "the DeVore Fidelity Silverback Reference is one of the most enjoyable and highest-performing speakers I've reviewed." Though he also throws in some caveats, he does toss out a lot of quotes like this that the manufacturer will no doubt use in his ads--in Stereophile.

Remember where this all originates within this thread. It is a search for indirect evidence that there is something other than speaker quality that results in great reviews.

Fremer's last quote and Stereophile's award of a Catagory "A" rating for a speaker that I couldn't abide is very strong evidence for me, at least, that something is amiss here.

Mel

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