At least from what I’ve read day-to-day from Paul McGowan regarding designing, and then listening, seemed to apply most to the speakers they are creating where they use the IRS Vs as their archetype sound to try to match and then build upon without simply copying Arnie Nudell’s incredible speakers (not just add modern crossovers, etc). They found that two different speakers prototypes they came up that demonstrated the same “math” on “paper” sounded distinctly different. They also found that creating a world class speaker is extremely difficult. I get the impression it is arguably the most difficult component to “master” from the ground up even when you know your specific goals. That really stuck with me. Anyway, that’s a whole new rabbit hole discussion.
@hilde45 my compliments on your moderating. Want to do this for every top level discussion on Audiogon? You’re the antithesis of our loathed friend, who shall not be named, that thankfully got banned a few months ago. He “thought”, for instance, the best, and only speakers worth anything, would be a concrete edifice that he would somehow design with his all encompassing wisdom 😂. All he did was unleash anarchy and anger, accompanied by virtual torches and dynamite, into the population🤬🔥🧨.
