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The article won’t be everyone’s cup of tea as SL didn’t pull his punches, but I think it’s well worth 10 or 15 minutes reading time.


Excellent find, , Thank you for bringing us some meat on the bones  opinions froma  legendary expert as is the highly respected Dr Linkwitz.
Section 15,, thats whats most of interest for me.
I love how his opinions line up with some of mine. 
B&W's,,I won't go there,,,, 
Magneplanars,,won't go there. 
Dr Linkwitz mentions the Wilson line as perhaps, the best we can hope for,,,but surely does not go to the point of recommending Wison as *the best*. 
He can't. 
Why?
Besides my prejudice that i hate Wislon speakers as much as I hate many other lines, at least the other highly colored /highly distorted lines are not like the Wilsons. 
The Wilons to me are a ~~joke~~ for a  ideal speaker,, Thet are ~~~ laughable. 
You needa  forlift to move them,,and price tag,, you will need to sell some TESLA stock to buy a  pair. 
For me, the Wilson's do not exist. 
I am very surprised Dr Linkwitz did not mention the fact that SEAS has always made the finest drivers, and their top of line are the most musical drivers made today.. Very surprised. 
I think Linkwitz is more about theory, and lacks a bit of  ~~fidelity~~ in his opinions. How could he fail to mention SEAS at the very last sentence??? 
Anyone?
In my 40 years, no other speaker presents music as does SEAS,,that is under a  rasonable price factor,,I would love to hear Jadis' speakers, vs the SEAS. But then again Jadis' lines have tto be excluded, due to both critical factors
1) weight/size
2) cost
Leaving SEAS all alone as Top Dog

mozartfan,

This is from the LX521 Characteristics & Specifications page:

• Tweeters - SEAS 27TFFNC/G, H1396-04, coated textile dome,
  front and rear of midrange/tweeter baffle
• Upper Midrange - SEAS MU10RB-SL, H1658-04, Curv cone
  42" above floor
• Lower Midrange - SEAS U22REX/P-SL, H1659-08, Curv cone
• Woofer - SEAS L26RO4Y, D1004-04, Aluminum cone
  Push-pull mounted in V-frame baffle of 24"H x 13"W x 15"D

There's a bit more detail of his using SEAS drivers for his most advanced design on the page.

https://www.linkwitzlab.com/LX521/Description.htm

Some more stuff on cables worth bearing in mind if the sneaky cable propaganda ever manages to slip by your critical faculties.

It can happen to anyone. Subliminal programming works, and is all around us.

Some of this targeting is good, and some is not so good. We're all being constantly targetted into overload and then it's not always easy to sort out the truth from fiction. 

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First the infamous article from 2008 by Matt Buchanan.

Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger-36315....

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Then a more recent update to see if the notorious Coat Hanger could be defeated by some modern audiophile cables.


Cable myths: reviving the coathanger test by Christian Thomas

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.soundguys.com/cable-myths-reviving-the-coathanger-test-23553/amp/

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And here’s Audioholics’ founder Gene DellaSala clearing away all those pesky psychological cobwebs for the rest of us in just under 9 minutes.


Are Perceived Audible Differences in Cable Performance Real or Psychological?

https://youtu.be/wrmNvQIl-D8

So what you're saying is, five months and nothing learned. Still stuck in the same rut. Is there even any desire to try and learn to listen?

Siegfried Linkwitz is one of the great contributors to audio science. His directions always made sense and it is very hard to argue with his basic premises. I think he may have been miss stated. A speaker has to have the same dispersion pattern at all frequencies. A criteria Magnepans and certain ESLs meet better than any other kind of speaker. I'm not entirely sure but I think it would be possible to design a horn system that way. This is probably the reason the K horn is so compelling in spite of it's phase and timing errors. Linkwitz's experimentation with dipole sub woofers was an attempt to create the dispersion pattern of his dipole speakers. 
Anyway, some great articles and Youtubes here. 
What we listen to are illusions, illusions of musicians playing real instruments and singing. Illusions are plastic and depend on the perception of the individual which is at once complicated by other motives and emotions but as has been demonstrated under the right conditions surprisingly uniform. I think most of our differences are based on opinions formed under the wrong conditions.