Bobby said:
which is very much in the same vein as a quotation attributed to Einstein from a lecture ca. 1933:
"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." or as it is often paraphrased:
"make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler"
A similar thought is found in a quote often attributed to Mark Twain:
"I'm sorry that this letter is so long but I didn't have time to write a shorter one."
but which apparently was first recorded as from Pascal ca 1630; translated into english as:
"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."
Time to give it a rest, rrog. The Merlins are very good products and many of us here really like the fact that we can get feedback from designers and manufacturers. As others have noted, there is clearly no "hidden" agenda when they post and w the expanding prevalence of the direct to consumer model, it's a very valuable source of information. FWIW, I own a pair but they have been supplanted in my main rig. The Merlins replaced the more complicated Vandy 3A sigs, and were in turn replaced by higher eff "cross-overless" speakers that are even simpler (and more expensive) than the Merlins. YMMV.
some of the simplest (as you call it) things on this planet are the most difficult to engineer. but when finished they are stellar performers because of their lack of complication.
which is very much in the same vein as a quotation attributed to Einstein from a lecture ca. 1933:
"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." or as it is often paraphrased:
"make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler"
A similar thought is found in a quote often attributed to Mark Twain:
"I'm sorry that this letter is so long but I didn't have time to write a shorter one."
but which apparently was first recorded as from Pascal ca 1630; translated into english as:
"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."
Time to give it a rest, rrog. The Merlins are very good products and many of us here really like the fact that we can get feedback from designers and manufacturers. As others have noted, there is clearly no "hidden" agenda when they post and w the expanding prevalence of the direct to consumer model, it's a very valuable source of information. FWIW, I own a pair but they have been supplanted in my main rig. The Merlins replaced the more complicated Vandy 3A sigs, and were in turn replaced by higher eff "cross-overless" speakers that are even simpler (and more expensive) than the Merlins. YMMV.