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RE: I'm Curious... The West and Horns ...

Posted by RGA on December 21, 2016 at 05:48:36:
It doesn't help that emasculated reviewers who are not allowed to have a speaker with anything larger than a 4 inch woofer in 18X40 living room because the wife will beat them continually tout LS-3/5a and other completely dynamically inept speakers as things we should spend $2,000 on.

But hey if you buy two sets and an equally wimpy center channel - it can all be saved with a big fat sub the wife can use as a coffee table. Let's face it - horn speakers are typically hideous to look at. Big speakers are well big and by extension ugly. There's a reason those stupid little Bose cubes sell so well. And hey you can always try to convince yourself it's good. It's just funny to see rooms here in Hong Kong with ridiculously massive Tannoys or JBLS while it is also ridiculous to see the average US home with a Totem Model One as the main speaker. It's just so weird.

But here is something I notice living in HK...and it is only anecdotal to people I have personally met - but my co-teacher and I were talking about stereos (reviewing and such) and I asked her if she had a system - Sure - a B&W loudspeakers, A Naim amplifier etc. Another woman has Sennheiser HD 600s, and an OPPO headphone amp. I mean this is not uncommon - women are into music here and they value it. Classical and jazz aren't relegated to one shelf in a CD selling shops. I have gone to the dealer where the wife is taking an active role in the listening and buying decisions. And they were listening to Einstein and Audio Note back to back. I shared the couch and she was mentioning very relevant aspects to the sound.

I almost never saw that in the west.

I think it's also too hard a sell for dealers - it's easier to sell mainstream heavily advertised stuff and simple concepts. It obviously works in all sorts of parameters in society - sell them easy to grasp things: More watts is better (like megapixels), more features is better (new technology is always best), and lots of baffle-gab on the technological advancements that a Wave Radio is better than a million dollar theater.

I had to check I wasn't in the twilight zone - the three of us agree that A good SET on a Good Horn is awesome? Wow.

Merry Christmas!