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steakster
I’ve been doing sound for 40+ years at the highest level, sorry I didn’t know I needed to bow down and kiss your ass, you are a bitch.

Wow.

There is zero need for you to be so nasty. Absolutely overreactive, unacceptable post. Whatever respect you may have garnered in your brief posting time here, is gone.

There is no useful purpose for posts like that on this forum or for the people who post them.

kota1

I have a fireplace where the cc tweeter should be and because that stupid stand was almost $1000 I had to use it. I did aim the tweeter to hit me at my listening position, I was very careful with the measurements very good note. If you do a recording with microphones at the tweeters of each speaker you can see the exact time alignment difference for each speaker, of course you have to do this with the equipment on to test latency also, this is the only way I know to know for sure to test what the time alignment is on each speaker.

Thanks for the nice comment about my room.

Why are you listening? To hear the mistakes the engineers made or to enjoy the music? I have a pair of unforgiving loudspeakers coupled to an excellent Sophia A/B amp. Listening to re-mastered Hot 5s & Diana Krall is bliss. There's a lot else, any Little Feat CD for instance, that hurts my ears.

tkhill
I’m not sure if you were talking about me but I’ll answer. The reason I started this post was because it seems like many of the people on Audiogon are searching for magical sessions with music. As technology gets better the closer we’ll get to musicians being in our listening rooms, It’s not even close now not by a long shot. Apple has created convenient music that sounds bad but young people now prefer it. I mentioned powered speakers (speakers and amps designed for each other) that no one here should have 1 seconds hesitation as to the fact that is a much better way to get to high sound quality. Then I mentioned the irrational cult like beliefs many audiophiles have toward sound like vibration dampening and hugely expensive AC cables. I spoke to one of the top people at Apple about how his company was causing the quality of music and all the ancillary industries around music to have the quality sucked out of them, he seemed surprisingly interested about what I had to say I hope it made a difference. Audiophiles are about the only group that can make a difference in the sound industry by demanding better sound quality but not snake oil. You should see the presser on sound engineers to do a crapy job the pressure isn’t to make great recordings it’s usually do it faster and cheeper.

Communities can make a difference and we have lots of money that can definitely make a difference.