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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Aporia - Silbatone Acoustics speaker

Post Subject: My sentiments exactly...Posted by Joe Roberts on: 1/24/2009

Another reviewer who can write the review without hearing the product. Now THAT is something new.

Don't expect anything new from me because I have been saying the same thing for 20 years. That's why you don't see me around much because I said what I have to say 100 times.

"Listen then decide for yourself" That's about all I have to say. That's all I said here.

"Decide for your self then you don't have to listen" is one of the traps audio geeks often lay for themselves, then fall right in. It is a deep hole.

I was not expecting much novelty in this discussion either and I was not disappointed. I keep hearing the ghost of Harry Pearson and a bit of Peter Aczel echoing back to my statements, just like 1987.

It is too easy to lose sight of musical enjoyment when the discussion is about non-musical factors that pollute audio dialogues. This is especially when non-musical concepts masquerade as profound musical insights. Music is sound, but sound is not music.

Musical ENJOYMENT is not a bad thing. I don't get it. What is the problem?

How familiar is this: "But you're not talking about MUSIC" ...when all the while I'm the one talking about music..."Yes I am." "No that's not music, only CLASSICAL MUSIC is music worth of high fidelity reproduction." "But I like Blues." "HAH! No wonder you have such low standards in high fidelity reproduction. You are not SERIOUS about reproduction"

Is the goal to come up with a dogmatic program of technical evaluation and system design, tangentially rooted in some arbitrary, objectified notion of perfect reproduction, then use it as a saber to joust with the less sophisticated (basically everybody else on the planet, except butt-smooching acolytes)?

The appeal to the highest level of evolution is particularly odious and perfectly typical. It is implied in the notion "well if you don't like it, then you have bad taste" but some just come out and state it plainly.

Dude, this is one corny worn out 1980s act. Go find some foreclosed property in Sea Cliff and get yourself some first pressing Mercury SRs. I think they suck myself but they go with the routine.

At least good horns have more credibility than the Infinity IRS. That is one reason that I think there is some value here...the reference gear is probably better than average.

Anyway, Romy, everybody...do what you wanna do, while it's still legal.

I'll be here chilling out listening to the sound bar on My DELL monitor, listening to WWOZ New Orleans on live stream--and enjoying it pretty well too.

And where did YOU hear Loth-X backhorn speakers? Nowhere probably. I'll bet you reviewed them off of a photo too.

Keepin it real,

Joe Robbers

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