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And so is integration and so is overall tone and so is ...

The point isn't about what GMA products do or don't do, it is that there is no one answer, no one critical one.

Walking around is what you hear in real music sounds like experience and knowledge, but is simply not true with almost any multidriver, non-coincident loudspeaker no matter the xover slope. The polar response is well understood and measured, and simple examples grace the pages of Stereophile in almost every issue. See the words "suck out" or "floor bounce" when they write about the measurements sections, these are clues that polar response of multidriver configurations is coming into play.

I've got nothing against GMA or 1st order or phase coherant designs. I'd have the same initial comment if the post said "I've got Von Schwiekert and am looking at GMA as an upgrade" and another poster comes along and said "Upgrade? Without the better driver polar response of a 4th order"

Using one parameter, critical as many are, to deny importance of many parameters is simply wrong.

Hell I've got two different phase coherent units (3 if you count a single driver setup which I don't use, just experiment), in my listening room along with 2nd order, 3rd order and 4th order units too. I understand an appreciate most of them.


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