High Efficiency Speaker Asylum

Need speakers that can rock with just one watt? You found da place.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

Re: Beauhorn Virtuoso Ref.

Posted by Mr. Walker on November 14, 2000 at 07:11:31:
Jeffrey, I think people have been bending over backwards and giving you every benefit of the doubt to create a plausible context for what you heard with the Avantgardes--e.g., by suggesting the Avantgardes you heard werenâ€™t set up properly or perhaps driven by poor electronics. I happen to think the â€œfinickyâ€ nature of Avantgardes has if anything been overstated. Iâ€™m no setup genius, but I got them to sound pretty good right out of the box, and this is in fact one of their explicit design objectivesâ€”to provide a high proportion of direct to reflected sound, thereby reducing the importance of room reflections. Another point along these lines is that in the German showrooms they actually use pretty humble electronics (integrated amps by Audio Refinement and Electrocompaniet, last I heard) to drive the UNOs and DUOs, just to show that you donâ€™t need to use state-of-the-art equipment to get good sound from them.
The other approach to understanding your strongly negative comparative claim, of course, is to examine the setup of your Beauhorns. Already, youâ€™ve been asked twice to describe your ancillary equipment, and for some reason you refuse to respond. What is this, some kind of state secret? You seem comfortable describing speakers that you are (and arenâ€™t) so familiar with, yet you say you donâ€™t want to get into a â€œpissing contestâ€ about whoâ€™s got the best equipment. Well, honestly, thereâ€™s so much urine under the bridge at this point, why not come clean and tell us what youâ€™re using? Iâ€™m sure Beauhorns sound very different with different amplifiers, so how can any of your comments be regarded as meaningful if you donâ€™t describe them in a system context?

["I bought a pair of Avantgarde Trios and changed my mind the day I was to take delivery."]
Up to this point, I thought the U.S. Avantgarde distributor had been exercising commendable restraint in this discussion; now I see itâ€™s been more like heroic restraint.