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In Reply to: Re: "This was at the dealer's, so I assume the other equipment was at least appropriate, as well as placement." posted by Guth on August 5, 2006 at 12:03:02:
"You really need to audition speakers in your own home with your own components whenever possible."Although this advice is often repeated it simply does not jive with my experience - especially when we're talking about smaller monitors with limited bass extension. It is a nice luxury but far from essential. Speakers remain, by a huge margin, the step in the reproductive chain with the most pronounced signature. Analogue front ends are the only thing remotely close in that regard. Few dealers have the luxury of tweaking their room and set up to benefit a single speaker so it is highly unlikely that they are camouflaging substantial performance issues. If the speaker sounded good at the dealer in the context of a roughly comparable system and at bad at your house you probably either have substantial problems with your system or your room that should have been apparent all along. Amplification, cables and CDPs I absolutely agree have to be heard in your system because, relative to speakers, their signature tends to be more subtle. Even $20K speakers, on the other hand, tend to be quite obvious about what they do right and what not so well.
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- In your own home? - plantsman 14:43:30 08/05/06 (1)
- Guess we'll have to disagree on this one. - Guth 21:40:10 08/05/06 (0)
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