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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: Ribbon Forever
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.101319.1010@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:13:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.111139.11647@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec22.214222.2043@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
- Lines: 36
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- In article <1992Dec22.214222.2043@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>,
- dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- > jeh@cmkrnl.com wrote:
- >
- > > Maggie owners tend to LOVE their speakers.
- > > I used to love mine.
- > > However I've since switched back to cones (Vandersteen 2ci, later augmented
- > > by the 2w subwoofer).
- > > I really like the soundstaging and "transparency" that Magnepans deliver.
- > > However... as Corey Greenberg put it recently in _Stereophile_: Panel
- > > speakers don't rock, and never will.
- > > Translated, this means that they compress dynamic range.
- >
- > Is he the one who can't write a coherent sentence in English?
-
- He writes many complete and coherent sentences. Some of them rely a lot on
- current popular usage and so may be difficult to follow, or even annoying, if
- your only experience with English is from reading a junior-high grammar text.
- Or if you're William Safire.
-
- > I have a pair of Apogee Stages: sure they are a little light in the
- > deep bass, but I'm sure the Divas or the Stage subwoofer would correct
- > that.
-
- Yup. Like I said....
-
- > Otherwise they are simply the finest speakers I have heard, for
- > any kind of music.
-
- The real trouble with panel speakers is that there are so many things that they
- do "appealingly" -- not necessarily "right" -- that they lead you to not pay
- attention to what they're doing wrong.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
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