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Re: B&W DM 604 S2 Speakers

Posted by Bombaywalla (A) on May 30, 2003 at 09:53:23

In Reply to: B&W DM 604 S2 Speakers posted by Brad V on May 30, 2003 at 09:12:09:

Hi Brad V,

Thanks for your comments. Appreciate the feedback.

Yes, I'll agree that hearing is quite subjective & I might even add age dependent. Listener fatigue seems to grow as a human being matures - just the way it is, I think!

It seems that the central issue here is that people in this forum will not accept that a speaker of this calibre *can* sound good if care is taken to set it up correctly & if it is fed w/ clean power amplification. This seems to be an utterly myopic view IMO. I don't see anywhere in my review where I claimed that this speaker was the be-all & end-all of speakers nor did I write that it was the best-in-class. I just said that it sounds very good in my system. Lots of people are having a severe problem accepting this. I seem to *infer* from this criticism that these people must have spent a lot of money on their speakers thinking that more expensive speakers necessarily give better sound. I think all of us know that this is not always true. Now here comes somebody saying that a "beer-budget" speaker sounds very good! This seems very hard for them to accept.

I also infer from all this criticism that these people are telling me that this speaker does not or cannot sound good! I mean what is this....
I'm saying that it sounds very good in my system - that's the way I hear it & that's what I have written in my review. Sure there are better speakers out there that will trump this one & will overcome the 604S2's shortcomings. I never denied that! This speakers does many, many things correctly to reproduce music very well. That's what I have said.

If you, for example, told me that the Excel Arrays sounded very good in your system, should I clober you for that & insist they don't?? I accept your point that the Excel Arrays sound very good in your system. I might not prefer the high freq. roll-off but that has nothing to do w/ you or your system or your hearing or your taste in music. It's just my preference. Period. If you are happy w/ your speakers, my preference about YOUR speakers doesn't matter!

Man, I'm very disappointed by the view points of these people! It seems that there cannot be any new ideas or any new learning on this site.

I'm sure that I've opened myself to more broad-side attacks! Many here will not disappoint.

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