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| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Marty: They obviously didn't teach you English. Master's needs an apostrophe "s," LA-based should be hyphenated and what's the name of that school again? Also, was the cathedral or Passau the largest such instrument? Oh. You meant the organ. You h... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Marty: Did you even go to school? Based on your posts and your writing prowess I tend to doubt it. Your ability to misinterpret is almost as impressive as your arrogance. I never claimed that you said "1st order crossovers were worse than any othe... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Marty: You are so wise and knowledgeable. That must be why you were so baffled by my putting phase- and time-coherent speakers like Thiel, Dunlavy and Vandersteen in the same category. And your treatise on first-order crossovers is something that ... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Of course. My mistake. It's been so many posts ago that I had forgotten that the VSMs are one of his many pairs of speakers. I'm surprised he hasn't had to replace that horrible ARC LS25. | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? So it appears as though Marty no longer owns a pair of Merlin speakers. I wonder why that is. | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Marty: Thanks a lot, but I think Bobby's last post covers everything. By the way, do you still own a pair of Merlin speakers? If so, what do you use with them? Thanks for sharing. | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Thanks so much for the detailed response. So adjusting the tightness of the screws holding the tweeter in place, changing batteries in the BAM, using lead-free solder and removing the tiny amount of lead contained in the drivers has led to a $6,00... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Good reviews, which these days are a dime a dozen, and your enthusiasm are what got me to buy a pair of VSM SE's in the first place. While they weren't by any means terrible speakers, they never lived up to the promise -- at least not for me.So I ... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Yeah, where's Mr. T when you really need him? He can derail a thread with the best of them. But then his threads are derailed from the beginning.Eyediver is learning that some people take this very seriously, as they should considering the kind of... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Bobby: I'll drop this when you do. First, my room wasn't big at all. It was about 13 by 20. Is that big? Also, I'm not losing my cool at all, but you seem to be. And you simply refuse to answer my questions about drivers, crossovers and cabinets. ... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Bobby: You're incredibly defensive for having done this for such a long time. I would think you would have developed a bit thicker skin. Besides, I'm certainly not being mean spirited, and you're certainly not answering my questions about the driv... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Bobby: Aren't your speakers using the same drivers -- or drivers that are extremely similar -- to the ones I had in the late 1990s? If not, how are they different? And aren't the cabinets pretty much identical? If not, how are they different?Also,... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Marty: No offense, but unless you've published papers in peer-reviewed journals, I don't think there's a whole lot you can teach me about audio. I've been at this a long time, have heard hundreds of high-end systems and am a trained musician. I ha... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Marty: Frequency response is just half of the equation. The other half is phase- and time-coherency. Bobby's latest designs may in fact be a lot better than the speakers I owned, but I wouldn't be willing to spend $10,000 or more to find out. You'... | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? Marty: Thanks for the thoughtful response. My system consists of a Wadia 861SE with Steve Huntley's Statement upgrade -- about as good as it gets for anything close to the money -- an ARC VS115 amp, Acoustic Zen interconnects and speaker cables an... |