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..."Do you really think the manufacturer would let people listen to them if they sounded as bad as these comments indicate?"....
Yes, I do!!!! Just go listen to Bose speakers and you tell me...enough said there. The almighty dollar is too aluring!
Also, Rooms beeing "too big" is not a problem at these shows guy's, trust me! The smaller rooms are BY FAR more difficult to deal with for best sound. You couple that with the fact that in those tiny rooms, there's really only one or two(depending on how they set em up) seats in the room with potentially descent balanced sound from a 2 speaker set up or whatever!(the majority of rooms have 2 speaker set ups I noticed).
Still, because most of these rooms at the hi-fi and CES show's play delicate jazz and vocals, it's not too shabby when you set the speakers up descently enough with some treatment here and there...it's workable I guess.
In a large room getting fantastic sound is generally much easier overall, especially when you consider you're going to likely sit closer to the speakers in addition!(just go into a local AV "Mega chain store" and listen to the surround set up in the middle of the store out in the open!..it'll be the best sounding set up they have likely!(?)
..."Do you really think the manufacturer would let people listen to them if they sounded as bad as these comments indicate?"....
Yes, I do!!!! Just go listen to Bose speakers and you tell me...enough said there. The almighty dollar is too aluring!
Also, Rooms beeing "too big" is not a problem at these shows guy's, trust me! The smaller rooms are BY FAR more difficult to deal with for best sound. You couple that with the fact that in those tiny rooms, there's really only one or two(depending on how they set em up) seats in the room with potentially descent balanced sound from a 2 speaker set up or whatever!(the majority of rooms have 2 speaker set ups I noticed).
Still, because most of these rooms at the hi-fi and CES show's play delicate jazz and vocals, it's not too shabby when you set the speakers up descently enough with some treatment here and there...it's workable I guess.
In a large room getting fantastic sound is generally much easier overall, especially when you consider you're going to likely sit closer to the speakers in addition!(just go into a local AV "Mega chain store" and listen to the surround set up in the middle of the store out in the open!..it'll be the best sounding set up they have likely!(?)