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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: "Buy what you like"? (was Re: Bose BULLSHIT)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.011956.1259@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:19:55 PST
- References: <1993Jan21.192328.7915@pts1.pts.mot.com>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego, CA
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1993Jan21.192328.7915@pts1.pts.mot.com>,
- ep502ca@pts.mot.com (CHARLES ACTOR X2751 P7091) writes:
- > Bottom line, if you're interested in a pair of speakers listen to them.
- > If they sound good to YOU then buy them. Buying speakers based upon
- > what someone says or thinks they hear is stupid. So go out and listen
- > for yourself and keep your inmature comments to yourself.
-
- The trouble with "just buy what you like!", especially if you aren't used to
- listening carefully, is that it is easy to "like" something early on which you
- later grow to hate.
-
- Example: Someone who has been using cheap minimonitors (eg Radio Shack Minimus
- 7's) one day walks into a showroom where... hmmm, let's invent something so we
- won't offend anyone... a pair of Julian-Sirius speakers, bass reflex with 10"
- woofers, are being demonstrated. WOW! Listen to that bass! Sold!
-
- Much later this perosn may discover that the bass is sloppy, has a huge peak
- at 200 Hz to give the illusion of real bass, etc., etc.
-
- Some critical reading of speaker reviews might have let this person avoid this
- particular case of "buyer's remorse".
-
- I'm not saying that you *shouldn't* listen for yourself. If you absolutely
- hate a system's sound, you probably shouldn't buy it regardless of what the
- reviewers say! But ... It seems to me that if someone who listens to audio
- systems enough to make a partial living at it says that "this speaker has
- these strengths and those faults", and especially if another reviewer in
- another magazine comes to the same conclusion, that is information that I
- should take into account in my buying decision. Even if my ears aren't
- trained enough to hear the faults now, it may be soon.
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego CA
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, or hanrahan@eisner.decus.org Uucp: uunet!cmkrnl!jeh
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