If you want a ported sub instead of sealed the Monolith subs by Monoprice are on sale and have been favorably reviewed:
Audio Science Review = "The better the measurement, the better the sound" philosophy
"Audiophiles are Snobs" Youtube features an idiot! He states, with no equivocation, that $5,000 and $10,000 speakers sound equally good and a $500 and $5,000 integrated amp sound equally good. He is either deaf or a liar or both!
There is a site filled with posters like him called Audio Science Review. If a reasonable person posts, they immediately tear him down, using selected words and/or sentences from the reasonable poster as100% proof that the audiophile is dumb and stupid with his money. They also occasionally state that the high end audio equipment/cable/tweak sellers are criminals who commit fraud on the public. They often state that if something scientifically measures better, then it sounds better. They give no credence to unmeasurable sound factors like PRAT and Ambiance. Some of the posters music choices range from rap to hip hop and anything pop oriented created in the past from 1995.
Have any of audiogon (or any other reasonable audio forum site) posters encountered this horrible group of miscreants?
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Your deflection and lack of recognition of sites that both have paid advertising and receive gifts is noted @axo1989 , but it does not change the outcome. I will continue to wait for those youtube links. |
I am well aware @russ69 , hence why I found it specious that @axo1989 raised this issue w.r.t. ASR, considering, as many have noted, most of the items that ASR reviews that comes from manufacturers, are lower in cost. Amir appears to already own some high end components, so I am not sure what benefit he is getting from owning 20, <$1,000 DACs? |
Yes, the Harbeths still haunt me with how well they did voices (I had the Super HL5plus for a while and have heard the whole line).
I didn’t choose the Devores but ended up with Joseph Audio Perspectives instead. I liked the sound of both but the JA speakers fit my room better - they have to flank the sides of a big projection screen and the wider Devores would cause more problems. Plus I usually listen closer than 8 feet and the Devores need at least that IMO to sound right in terms of coherence and tone. Impressions of the Devore O-series speakers can be all over the map because they are pretty finicky to set up, and finicky about listening distance, toe in etc. They can sound bland or too aggressive if done wrong. Get them right, and they do a superb balance between exciting and smooth.
I still haven’t heard a speaker that did those sounds as convincingly as the Devores. That sense of a bongo skin being hit "right there," not as a recording but real, and with weight and palpability. My Joseph speakers are more refined and pure sounding, more free of grain, so the rendering of things like cymbals and bells is exquisitely pure and gorgeous. However, the Joseph speakers are like the vast majority of speakers I’ve heard: there is a certain pear shape to the size of the sound. Instruments with bass and lower midrange frequencies sound rich and dense and amazingly large. But as you go up to the higher frequencies things sound tinier and tinier, so now drum cymbals sound very clear and clean, but fairly weightless and much smaller than the real thing. Again this isn’t just a Joseph Audio thing: it’s what I hear with virtually all conventional speakers - as if all those instruments in the treble are being squeezed through those tiny tweeters making for a miniaturized presence. I found the Devor O/96 does better than most speakers in maintaining a sense of thickness, heft and size from the bottom to the top frequencies, so even drum cymbals and bells seem to have more life-sized weight and presence. That’s one thing that blew me away listening to the drum solo track I often use as a test. The MBL omni speakers (which I’ve owned) also can have a similar quality - drum cymbals sound more like the large resonating discs they are rather than the small bits of bright spots lighting up in a soundstage of most speakers.
IMO. :-)
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