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RE: I just had a really scary thought..

Posted by Bold Eagle (A) on June 10, 2007 at 09:27:27

In Reply to: I just had a really scary thought.. posted by DavidLD on June 9, 2007 at 05:31:23:

David,

Welcome back!

I'm not sure your comparison is apples to apples. For one thing, the Smaller Advent was not around yet in 1969. Second, the HT in a box is probably closer to the all-in-one systems of that era, with the KLH Model 20 leading the pack--kind of the way Bose leads the HT-in-a-box today. H-K, Zenith and others made similar package systems. And, of course, they did vary all over the map and price was not a good indicator of quality. But then, it never has been.

One of the lessons of the KLH Model 20 is that if the pieces are engineered to work together, the whole far exceeds the sum of the pieces. We talk here at AA about matching being a key to getting a really good system and we're talking about nuances among high quality individual pieces. But it's really in the cheap stuff where matching is most important and most fruitful. So it's not about the pieces, so much as it is the skill and dedication of the people behind the HT-in-a-box that counts. If brand X-Y-Z is building only for price and appearance, and somebody at brand R-S-T has some skill and cares, it will make a huge difference. How do you sort that out? You listen!

My Bose AM-5 series II speakers cost me $600 about 12 years ago. Given the pieces in that and the quality levels, you could probably make something similar in China or Thailand and sell it for under $200. If it's a cobbled together look alike clone, it will sound like crap. If it's a careful copy with attention to detail, it will probably sound pretty good.

Jerry

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