RE: Never trust a Stereopile review

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General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

Posted by cawson@onetel.com (A) on April 16, 2019 at 00:45:17

In Reply to: RE: Never trust a Stereopile review posted by Audioquest4life on April 15, 2019 at 15:41:35:

Not compared with any other horns but they have very accurate imaging provided set up well. This is important to me but good imaging usually means small sweet spot - AGs included.

I've had box speakers in my room and more recently 2 ESL systems. The Quad 2905s were also very good with imaging and the Martin Logan 13As quite good but the Duos bring forward the music such that you're sitting much closer to the musicians. I like this feature particularly when a solo singer seems to be singing from my hifi rack between the speakers. With the MLs the soloist is considerably further away.

I suggest you carefully read Stereophile's original review of the Uno system as it very well describes the presentation of music. It was just what I wanted after putting up with ATC speakers for a year so so. These were no doubt very accurate but so "in your face" I wanted to push them 20 ft further away!

I can thoroughly recommend AG speakers including these old Unos and Duoes but go for ones with SUB225 not the 170s. I've had Unos 18 years since new but the Duos only a few weeks. Peter

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Topic - Klipsch RP-440C (and Stereophile Review) - svisner 08:00:11 04/14/19 (14)

RE: Klipsch RP-440C (and Stereophile Review) - svisner 06:41:50 04/15/19 (0)

Never trust a Stereopile review - bare 08:29:42 04/14/19 (12)

even QUADs?? - Timbo in Oz 02:34:49 04/15/19 (3)

33 /303.. ?? - bare 09:15:13 04/16/19 (2)

63s and later? - Timbo in Oz 15:08:58 04/16/19 (1)

Classic speakers with a modern front end - G Squared 16:59:07 04/16/19 (0)

Never mis-interpret a Stereophile review. - Mr. Dick Hertz 19:17:16 04/14/19 (0)

Speaker reviews are pointless. - ppopp 15:53:44 04/14/19 (2)

Which is why objective measurements are so important - Brian H P 12:33:16 04/15/19 (0)

Stereo-pile reviews are Garbage IMO. - bare 18:53:45 04/14/19 (0)

RE: Never trust a Stereopile review - cawson@onetel.com 11:41:13 04/14/19 (2)

RE: Never trust a Stereopile review - Audioquest4life 15:41:35 04/15/19 (1)

RE: Never trust a Stereopile review - cawson@onetel.com 00:45:17 04/16/19 (0)

RE: Never trust a Stereopile review - svisner 10:33:24 04/14/19 (0)

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