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In Reply to: Re: Characteristics of consumer-oriented audio publications posted by John Atkinson on March 21, 2007 at 04:23:25:
Based on your blind tests, years later in 1994 I auditioned used EPOS ES11 speakers so well liked under blind conditions, as new satellite speakers to replace my Spica TC50's.These small one-cap crossover speakers would otherwise have been completely ignored based on their small size and modest price.
I bought them used for $400 and they were excellent satellite speakers when used with a 70Hz./24dB per octave Marchand crossover and playing near-field at the modeast SPL's I prefer.
The original owner thought the bass was too weak and he was a typical high-end anti-subwoofer audiophile with speakers that desperately needed subwoofers.
I still use the EPOS speakers since no other small satellite speakers I've tried at home have been significantly better so far.
To thank you for this unusual test, I will at every opportunity give you a hard time here to encourage you to get back to work on Stereophile and stop wasting your valuable time here, thereby doing you and Stereophile readers a favor (and you probably thought I was just another argumentative old geezer suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome)
Like you are.Small cheap-looking speakers and other components sound better to some people when they can't see them during the audition. So blind tests work for speakers even though everyone agrees they all sound different. They all look different too.
Richard BassNut Greene
Subjective Audiophile 2007
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Follow Ups
- Your blind speaker tests were the best tests ever done in Stereophile including the JGH "golden era" - Richard BassNut Greene 09:17:29 03/23/07 (1)
- Based on that information it's hard to imagine we won't - bjh 17:41:57 03/23/07 (0)
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