Can't just limit his high end experience to Wilson!
Ugh, my room gets that messy too towards the end of the issue!
TIme to clean up soon and send everyone's stuff back...
Given the level of the equipment he has, it seemed like not a very good room layout for acoustics. I noticed one absorber between the speakers, but nothing else obvious as far as room treatments or positioning. One has to wonder if the system wouldn't sound even better with a well-designed room.
I was impressed with the vinyl library...
If one agrees that the room contributes as much as 50% to the total result of a systems 'sound', then you'll probably be with me on not weighing opinions of people who do not have treated rooms on just how good product x vs product Y is.
My analogy for this is that it’s like a car magazine that only tests cars on bumpy gravel roads. The Subaru is likely to beat the Porsche or the Ferrari in their tests.
Don’t think too many car guys would believe they were ‘authoritative’ if they did that.
Likewise with magazine reviewers, if their room layout is the equivalent of a bumpy gravel road, then how can I believe a word they say about ride comfort or top-end performance?
On the other hand I would not want to read reviews of cars that were only track-tested, but unless they qualify the overall performance in more than one environment, how does one now who well something will perform in one’s own context?
...but based on conversations with those who've been there, I'm not so sure his knowledge really includes turntable setup, much as he would have you believe.
Nice that the quality of the reproduction was appreciated, but I don’t think it did much to help the cause of reasonable high-end, vs audiophilia-nervosa, which Mike suffers from acutely.
Anytime anyone seriously discusses the benefits and differences of multi-kilobuck power cords, even my BS detector goes off.
It’s audio-jewlery, period.
Might as well believe a high-society woman claiming to be a better person when she wears her $20K diamond necklace. She might look sharp, but it does not fundamentally change her.
Here's to us...long live the audiophools!!
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