In Reply to: The "rigid, blinkered approach" is your prerogitive obviously... posted by Wellfed on March 12, 2007 at 12:34:07:
I think I'd qualify myself more as skeptical, rather than blinkered. I think that it's reasonable to want to see solid evidence before paying big money. No evidence, no money. "It has been reported" is not enough for me to draw my chequebook.The biggest impact on the performance of my system had the new living room with dimensions according to Bonello, the acoustically effective ceiling, the speakers themselves. No intelligent chip is capable of lowering reverberation time, no green CD pen is capable of spreading room modes appropriately, no myrtle block is capable of improving bad speaker dispersion. Get the most important part of the system, i.e. speakers and room, right, then forget about the rest.
As usual, YMMV, my 2 cents, IMHO.
Klaus
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- Re: The "rigid, blinkered approach" is your prerogitive obviously... - KlausR. 09:18:16 03/13/07 (12)
- I have no problem whatsoever with scepticism... - Wellfed 11:01:58 03/13/07 (11)
- Bonello and Schroeder - KlausR. 01:11:07 03/15/07 (9)
- Thanks for the info Klaus... - Wellfed 07:39:56 03/15/07 (8)
- Re: Meaningful comparison - KlausR. 01:02:53 03/16/07 (7)
- In any event... - Wellfed 14:51:45 03/16/07 (6)
- Re: In any event... - KlausR. 05:45:43 03/17/07 (5)
- I'd really love to hear your setup one day. [nt] - Wellfed 11:00:07 03/17/07 (4)
- You're welcome any time - KlausR. 02:30:20 03/18/07 (3)
- I'm a firm believer in... - Wellfed 06:26:31 03/18/07 (2)
- Don't wait too long or... - KlausR. 11:17:18 03/18/07 (1)
- I haven't been to the Netherlands since '85... - Wellfed 11:54:31 03/18/07 (0)
- What exactly is "enough 'evidence' for me to investigate a given product"? That's easy! - clarkjohnsen 12:16:40 03/13/07 (0)