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In Reply to: RE: Just because neither you nor I can afford them, why be offended? posted by soulfood on August 09, 2012 at 04:48:29
Just wondering if you were there. The Magico woofer sounded blown to me. At least I hope it was blown for sounding like that.
As for requesting volume turned up - I don't see that as a problem because we each have preferences. Reviewer's tend to stick out so and this is a small show.
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If you're insisting Magico was demoing a speaker with a blown woofer as a result of a reviewer, what difference does it make if I was there? I'll take you at your word for now.
"Reviewer's tend to stick out so and this is a small show."
OK I'll bite, what's your point?
Well old school claimed to be in the room with Jason Serinus - that is possible.
The standmount speakers were clearly buzzing in bass passages - that sounded blown to me. Either way it wasn't very good. And when I heard the price I almost laughed at the absurdity.
Actually Jason admits to helping blow the speaker near the end of the show - he didn't - I heard it clearly rubbing well before the end of the show so he may have helped push it over the edge but something was wrong earlier in the day.
You can read him say this here.
"Actually Jason admits to helping blow the speaker near the end of the show - he didn't..."
He didn't, now? You have no shame.
Well if you're a troll I am not sure but I was defending Jason in my post. He thought he had blown the speaker - I don't think that he did - I think it was either already partially blown (it sounded flabby on bass passages and as if it was rubbing) before the last hours of the show.
Jason may have felt guilty for blowing them and I don't believe he did. It may have gone unnoticed at first if he was playing strings. The driver was still physically working when I was there. He may have pushed it over the edge but it didn't go from perfectly working driver to dead stop, smell the sulfer in the room, blown driver.
Regardless - you called out old school for lying. Please tell us how you draw that conclusion. There was clearly something wrong with the woofer - Mr. Serinus stated this in his show report. Seems to me Old School was being truthful.
So what's the problem? The shame here is you calling out posters with no evidence.
"Well if you're a troll I am not sure but I was defending Jason in my post."
If I recognise your defense of Jason, I'm not troll?
"Regardless - you called out old school for lying."
You're the one saying old school, didn't fully understand, what he thought he heard. As you're now saying Jason's assessment was also inaccurate.
"So what's the problem? The shame here is you calling out posters with no evidence."
I've called out no one. You're calling out yourself.
Yes, I was in several rooms where Serinus asked for the volume to be turned up. As I have stated, Serinus was often correct that the sound was at a too low volume. The small Magico room was continually playing music too loud (over 105 db via my Radio Shack meter). RGA is certainly correct that it's extremely hard to compare systems at different volume levels. The MBL, smaller Magico, and Legacy rooms were all playing at way too high levels for me. Many rooms were playing at too low volume levels. Hard to compare. I liked the levels in the Electrocompaniet, Focal, Vivid, Sonist, Acoustic Zen, and Audio/Vision's Kef 50 room. I was very surprised at the effortless way the low power Unison Research amp (reviewed by Sam Tellig in the August Stereophile) drove the Kef 50 speaker. Plus the sound was palpable and tonally ravishing! This is a new speaker to hear for sure, especially in small rooms.
Thanks for clearing that up. What the deal with the blown woofer? It just seems it would be, to obvious to ignore. Perhaps they were having fun just prior to closing. Of course, I'm speculating.
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