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In the Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic
Post Subject: Hi-TechPosted by Paul S on: 5/14/2018
Josh, thanks for sharing. Of course I have not listened to these speakers, but I can say their marketing looks and reads pretty much the same as other manufacturers who aim at wealthy nerds who want to own "the best". Altec-Lansing was very much like this when they started trying to reach "consumers" in the early 60s. I agree with Romy that there is no "proof" that higher flux density makes better music in one's home, yet this old saw keeps getting passed around like it's Gospel. I also agree that there are probably fewer than 12 people on the planet who have made a significant, "rational" study of the relationships between different materials and configurations and the sound they make when embedded in various *repeatable* systems and environments. Really, this is the work of a lifetime, and it is also the stuff of madness, if you ask me, and it remains true that it's still a matter of taste. Happy is he who simply happens upon something acceptable that - somehow - simply "works" for him. While I would not try to take away from any success that anyone ever got, the various "lines of logic" in hi-fi are too myriad to effectively "explain" everything in entirety, IMO, so they -in effect - wind up making a sort of "tapestry" or "fugue" of information that is relatively germane but it really neither fully explains nor fully guides a person in search of "the ultimate sound". Not saying there's anything wrong with the end products shown here; but I see no compiled reasoning that shocks like lightning. People will still have to pay their money and take their chances.
Best regards,
Paul SRerurn to Romy the Cat's Site