drmatt wrote: > Maybe this is why I never got involved in rec.audio and subgroups years > ago.. > Never been particularly interested in the brands or the politics and > have generally found myself at dealers listening to stuff to make my own > mind up. > > Was always interested in the technology though.
A through understanding of speaker technology will result in the well informed audiophile completely ignoring dealer loudspeaker demos. Because speakers are so dependent on room acoustics, there is zero chance that a speaker will sound at home like it sounded in the store. A store demo might be revealing enough that you would not buy a speaker that sounded like utter crap, but if a dealer has a speaker like that, he will probably deploy it in such a way that the audible problems are masked by the source material, room acoustics, and/or his sales pitch. For years I have purchased speakers based on no personal audition at all. What I do is work with electronic equalization, room acoustics and speaker location to obtain the sound I like. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105507 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
