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RE: sonic impact

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In Reply to: RE: sonic impact posted by QuadTodd on January 07, 2018 at 13:01:43

well, i'm sure a big part of that was that they stopped making sonic impacts soon after they started getting popular. i bought mine for $20 just when the price was starting to climb, and in less than a year, if i remember right, they were gone, and came back a year later as black dayton amps which i think are gone too.

i don't trust magazine reviews when all of their bias is towards expensive gear... namely the same gear that buys their advertising and there IS a "pay to play rule" in said propaganda. i found that out talking to a shop owner who had his own product that no-one would review unless he bought advertising.

besides that, i tend to think of expensive hifi gear as a ripoff because it wasn't $4,000 klipsch lascalas, big tinfoil sounding maggies, or $1,000 JBL etc. towers etc. that got me into hifi... it was a $100 pair of infinities that blew my mind with their speed, detail, imaging, and total lack of either port or cabinet resonances. i still think acoustic suspension sub/sat is the only correct way to build a cone based system after that... and see a conspiracy to suppress acoustic suspension because it proves that big sloppy bass ported speakers with cabinets that fail the knock test are a ripoff.

i'm biased AGAINST expensive gear though i have heard smaller maggies sound gorgeous on tubes... B&W 800s on mc intosh sound laid back & detailed (if not thump with conviction) and vandersteen 5As sound lovely, but way too thick & lush for my tastes on mc cormack with an original 9giant killing... non digital sounding) audioquest dragonfly...

the dragonfly impressed me the most there! LOL

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