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Re: come on bob...

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I have never been very good at saying (knowing!) why various speakers lines don't sound like one other, for which Robert E Greene used to take me regularly to task. It might have been interesting at some point in my education to study a bit of audio physics to repair that hole in my knowledge. But the truth is, I have always been more interested in what the differences were as experience. In that sense, I take impressions of speakers (and other gear in conjunction with them) and report them. I think that's what most amateur 'philes do because in the end that's what's the point. What does a Merlin speaker sound like these days? How do the new Signature models of Reynauds sound compared with their immediate forebears? How are Harbeths and Spendors different to our ears? How differently do they strike us? It ain't very intellectual, I concede, but it's damn interesting, especially when you hear well and can get it right, in language. As I said earlier, that has always been my goal.

As for Neill and Merlins, we have not had ideal relations over the years. I have never heard them on your preferred (?) Joule amps. I heard them on a very fine but perhaps not ideally suitable pair of Blue Circle BC 2.1's years ago. And I heard them in Montreal a few years back on a Berning. The experiences were similar, but I preferred them on the BC amp, which seemed less severe.

Perhaps I'll get to hear your lastest at RMAF, which I plan to attend next fall representing Reynaud (first appearance of JMR in years) and sharing a room with Blue Circle. If you're to be there, I will make a point of finding you.

Best,
Bob

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