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

Post Subject: I am serious cat...Posted by Joe Roberts on: 2/9/2009

I have to admit that it is not a good idea to judge a loudspeaker based upon somebody else’s comment

Yet you continue to do it again and again... why?

You know its bogus, I know its bogus, they know it is bogus. Dude, it is BOGUS. Just say no! Stop!

I must point out that there is a serious problem with your "ask a friend" data collection method. It is obvious that what you are looking for is not an impartial assessment of the Aporia, but rather validation and ammunition for the kind of psychotic babble found in the post above.

I can imagine how the question was phrased: "When you were at CES, did you hear that ridiculous APORIA single driver horn that that washed-up, ho-bag Joe Roberts is hawking these days...you know the one that all the exuberant morons are crowing about?"

Hell, if you called me for this sort of crazed , I'd probably humor you too...just to get you off the phone.

You can project, imagine, and speculate all you want but the fact remains that you didn't hear the speaker and you therefore don't actually know what you are talking about. You are the one who has nothing to do with reality.

Calling people on the phone who may have heard the Aporia, if in fact you did this, will not bring you any closer to the promised land. You are out in the hot desert, pulling around a Lamm amp in a cart over the sandy dunes, and the vision of a cool glass of water doesn't make your tongue any wetter.

This is not to say that everybody who heard the Aporia loved it...that would be unlikely regardless of how it sounded. But, at least they heard it and can discuss the issue with some authority. I can say that by and large the speaker was very well received and many people liked it quite a bit, including numerous competing manufacturers and various distributors who were impressed enough to take on the product line.

The Executive Director of the Las Vegas Symphony hung around for a half hour listening to music and was quite impressed. He was anything but a high-end zombie...in fact, he knew almost zero about high-end audio, but I dare say he knows music. I have his card on my desk in front of me. To me, that experience counts more than praise from a dozen "internet audiophiles" precisely because I know he was reacting without well-baked preconceptions.

Also, I would remind the readers what they already know, that "serious" does not mean "unthinkingly agrees with Romy.™"

There is another term for that condition and I'll let you all define what it is!

Now think about this...many of the "exuberant morons" who are interesed in the concept of Aporia most likely would be more or less equally exuberant about the Romy approach. Some guys are intrigued by more than one approach. Does this mean that they are still morons or does this save them from the death squad?

How about the exuberant morons who decide that Romy Approach™ is going to be what they are exuberant about? Face it, there are some out there...maybe you just talked them into it with persistent rhetoric and that special brand of manic enthusiasm... they never heard the results, but they are exuberant. Are they still morons or rather a special class of highly evolved creatures?

I maintain that the Aporia speaker does not sound like anything else, at least nothing I have heard. It may or may not be what a given individual is searching for, but it is not a predictable sounding speaker.

I say the healthy and sensible approach is to stay open and listen because there are still surprises out there if you allow it.

Joe Rob

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