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In Reply to: RE: Audio world would be a better place without Gordon Holt posted by hahax@verizon.net on June 11, 2025 at 20:42:56:
It depends on the music since I have eclectic taste from disco to opera so I need a few speakers. I value tone and speakers which have that elusive "life like quality" They don't need to be accurate and have any other great properties. I also like the spatial effects (who doesn't) as long as they not interfere with tone and that's my main beef with high end. It castrates speakers from tone offering that artificial boring smoothness. They are also mostly thin and indiscriminate in midbass thanks to usually narrow enclosure and small size of transducers. I don't like "pinched" sound of dome tweeters and will take a wizzer cone over an accurate dome and in my opinion midrange driver should have at least 6" and preferably 10" to get midband right and realistic. Nothing is written in stone so I'm kind of partial to Spendor SP1/2E. It doesn't have a great tone but it does have that buttery seductive midrange with Operatic voices so I just forgive them to make everything else sounding like a "wedding band playing rock" Also Audio Note Snell boxes with alnico drivers are not so bad in small room which can support them.
I might be prejudiced against ATC since I did not hear their latest offerings but I not going to shows anymore and I don't see that they changed the course along with anybody else. They all will sacrifice everything else to get that holographic imaging that sells. Nothing else matters. Once I detect that homogenized, smoothed out of any life midrange
and they all have it I can't stand to listen any further.
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- RE: Audio world would be a better place without Gordon Holt - Wojciech 06:37:11 06/12/25 (1)
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