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Re: Yes, I have heard 47 Labs and you haven't.

I've never heard the Magico Mini; I have heard the SF Cremona Auditor, which is a very nice speaker which I thought sounded very similar to the Paradigm Signature S2 but at twice the cost.

My use of the Stereophile Recommended Components ratings was simply to point out that some eminent reviewers regard them as very good speakers, by no means mid-fi. I don't have to accept the hype that Stereophile gives said ratings and I don't.

I know that a number of live vs. recorded demonstrations have been done. John Dunlavy did them. McIntosh apparently did them quite regularly to the general public, and I think Quad did some, too. They apparently have been very impressive. Please note I said they were demonstrations, not DBTs. But a demonstration in a large room, say a concert hall, is not a demonstration in a home environment, which would have quite different acoustics.

I am little interested in any reviewer's purely subjective remarks about the sound quality of electronics, except for signal processors, unless supported by objective data.

Since speakers demonstrably do sound different, I take some interest in the evaluations even of purely subjective reviewers and of course, audiophiles.

As for speakers reviewers, I find that reviewers such as John Atkinson, Andrew Marshall of AIG, Doug Schneider, Don Keele, Tom Nousaine, and Tom Lyle, like many of the same speakers I do. I note that all those include significant measured data in their reviews.


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