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In the Thread: Omni-directional 'horny' speaker from RAAL
Post Subject: The One Thing That MattersPosted by Paul S on: 10/14/2008
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Is this another case where one must actually hear and be familiar with the product to comment?
Zipping through some of the text, this guy sounds like the typical zealot with a good idea that has swollen up to eclipse his thinking in related areas.
It's encouraging that he promptly admits to trade-offs, but he seems to pretty much brush off FR, and if he mentions/addresses any specific performance parameters other than the "correct" recreation of space/ambience/imaging, I missed it. Shades of the Bose 901.
Whatever the actual worth of these speakers might be, at this point it appears to be yet another case where "objective" results/"success" would be limited by/to the stated objectives, at best.
Sure, it's swell to have a nice "visual" spread/swath of "images" of "real" musicians. But what if it always sounds like a bunch of fuzzy, aberrrated, crappy musicians playing fuzzy, aberrated, crappy instruments? What if it always sounds +/- the same, given a "good" recording?
While I see no good reasons why this idea could not provide a spray of sound within its limits, there are some clues embedded in the text that suggest self-satisfaction and even smugness with self-limiting objectives and means of the usual sort.
But no sense in getting embroiled with a zealot, however, since he will ever return to the elliptical orbiting of his "core principles", within which all demonstrable proof resides and all issues worthy of consideration are resolved.
Withal, I am glad every day for people like this, who are driven to create and to do. No telling when some good might actually come from their passions through alternative applications.
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