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Re: OK Pat, But I Did Compare the Aliantes vs The Paradigm.

Pat,

You asked me: I'm wondering how you can assess the SF Cremona Auditor if you haven't heard them.

I know I informed you I had been told the Aliantes sound very much like the SF Cremona Auditor. IIRC I also mentioned it was the man who sold me the Aliantes who told me that. So yes I trusted another person's judgement, very much like you want me to trust yours. What I didn't tell you then, because I didn't want to appear like I was disparging your speakers, was that the man who sold me the Aliantes compared them directly to the SF Cremona Auditor, in the same room, using all the same components. After doing that he actually prefered the Aliantes Pinafarina Ones at that price point, so he bought them.

Does that mean I'd agree 100% with his opinion? I don't know, like you said I haven't personally heard SF Cremona Auditor. However the sonic characteristics he ascribed to the Aliantes is basically what I am hearing here as well. So we appear to "hear" the same things and chances are I'd agree with his assessment of the SF Cremona Auditor too. Then I have to weigh his opinion against yours, a person, who hears different things than I did when I compared the Paradigm Sig S2 to the Aliante Pinafarina One and who also doesn't believe the same things I do about differences in amps, wires etc. So in that case I'll err on the side of caution and agree with the person who hears what I hear and believes what I believe.
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Pat as far as your comment of: Again, I told you already that I do not accept the hype that goes with Stereophile's descriptions of their ratings for Recommended Components. I suppose I'll just have to telling you that, although so far it hasn't had any effect.

Yes Pat you will have to keep repeating that as long as you keep mentioning Stereo-Review-Phile's Class A (Restricted LF) status of your speaker over & over again like you do as seen in these posts of yours...

1) I'm still quite pleased with my Paradigm Signature S2 speakers (which I notice have attained Class A Restricted LF status in Stereophile's Recommended Components)
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/prophead/messages/25680.html

2) It's true I think my main speakers are first class, along with some excellent speaker reviewers such as John Atkinson, Andrew Marshall, and Doug Schneider.
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/prophead/messages/25691.html

3) Stereophile puts the SF Cremona Auditor in Class B Retricted LF, but that is apparently another reviewer's opinion, whereas JA reviewed the S2.
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/prophead/messages/25813.html

4) ...my speakers judged by Stereophile to be Class A Restricted LF! You must be going by price and age because you can have no other objective basis for such an assessment.
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/prophead/messages/25698.html

Someone who boasts about Stereophile's status of their speaker in their posts is hardly the actions of a person who does not accept the hype that goes with Stereophile's descriptions of their ratings for Recommended Components like you are now professing. So YES Pat I suppose you'll just have to telling me that. For your actions belie your words and keep them from having your desired effect. In any event this isn't meant to discredit you, but rather to explain why when you state you do not accept the hype that goes with Stereophile's descriptions of their ratings for Recommended Components, I have trouble accepting those words from you at their face value.

Keep enjoying the music & have a Happy Thanksgiving -- Thetubeguy1954

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus


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