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A few days ago a guy from Western Europe visited me. It was a typical audio visit:  a couple hours of listening session, a dinner and a long talk. The guy was interested buy the fact that he was not a product of Hi-Fi Americana (he was more closed to North European semi-Pro audio world) and we did not have a lot of commonalties in our stupid hi-fi slang, I for instance hardly ever heard about a number or large and reportedly evolved acoustic systems he owned. He knew speakers however very well, and was able to talk about them very competently from the idiosyncratic standpoint of my understanding of loudspeakers. He was very positively commented about certain aspects of Macondo performance and actually was able to explain what he was listening and how he understood what he heard (very rare quality among my visitors). This appreciation elevated me in his eyes to the state where he begins to ask me my views about general tendency of industry acoustic system sound. My native feline feeling of  “hate of others” multiplied by my sick ego made me to make many very critical and very negative comments to which his reaction was something like this: “ that is all might be true  but I would never write about it”. It turned out that he was an occasional contributor to European audio publications… Anyhow, to make the long story short let me give you an idea why I am writing about this thing.

One of the questions he asked did stumble me. I was surprised with the question’s restrictiveness from one side and with inclusiveness of the answer that I gave to him. He asked: what was in my view (the view of listener not a designer) was the SINGLE and THE MOST APPALLING quality of today’s high-end audio loudspeakers?  The answers lead to a long and stimulating discussion. I have my well-formed position about SINGLE and THE MOST APPALLING quality, the position that I partially have expressed across my site, but I never formed it into the “single worst” format, the format that I find to be stupid but interesting, or at least entertaining. I will submit later on my take about the single worst quality of today’s acoustic systems but meanwhile I would propose you to express your take.

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