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

No, unfortunately they were in different dealers' showrooms as so often happens when shopping, but both were well set up well away from the walls and driven by solid state amplifiers. I was using very familiar program material. Like the S2, the SF Cremona Auditors seemed to have no obvious colorations or anomalies in their sound other than the lack of deep bass, which I remedy with a subwoofer. It would be nice to be able to compare speakers directly but that is very often difficult to arrange, especially when one is traveling.

I have been trying out my speakers with something closer to near field listening. The place my wife prefers them is not quite the best with some material, but I can move them forward when I want and this seems to work very well with the few recording with which I have tried it, mostly orchestral, I think, as vocals work well in either placement.

I should point out that I have nothing against tubes with the right speakers for them. The reasons I don't want them tend to be related to reliability, cost, consistency, and compatibility. With good solid state amps, I can be pretty sure that the frequency response I get from the speakers in the store will be very like their FR at home. There are also speakers that sound a lot better with solid state, the SF Concerto Grand Piano, for example, and a much lesser speaker, the Usher X-719 (which I didn't really like all that well anyway). Having an accurate, powerful amplifier with a low output impedance effectively removes a variable and once I get the speakers in the house, I don't have to shop around for an amp that makes them sound right. I think most speakers are designed with a low source impedance in mind, though there are some exceptions.


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