david_ten
I'm just fascinated with speakers. When the opportunity arises to listen to a high end speaker, I take it, even if I've heard it before.
I'd been seriously considering the Persona's early on, with a somewhat positive first encounter (though with caveats), so I gave them another audition not long ago and it gave me a better handle on my feelings about them. Though I noticed things in the last audition - e.g. about the tone - that didn't stick out the first time. This was another opportunity to see how they sound in a different set up, powered with different amps etc, as another data point. It solidified some of my impressions, and since this is the Paradigm Persona thread, and we audiophiles like to talk about our speaker experiences, I'll report mine in a thread like this.
And nothing I've said - zero! - implies my experience is "superior or primary" to anyone else's. In fact I have been careful to say it's clearly my own subjective reaction. The speakers leave ME cold, and TO MY ears they sounded X. I clearly stipulated this was my SUBJECTIVE reaction, rather than just declaring some objective condemnation, like a number of audiophiles tend to do. I said, as I've said before about the Persona series, I understand why OTHER PEOPLE like them. So I have no idea why you are imagining otherwise.
