Steve Adeff wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 19:27, Meatwad wrote: > >>All right. I was a little strong when I called their in-walls 'awful' >>earlier but then I've had the benefit of routinely listening to a very >>wide selection of loudspeakers for over thirty years. From the classic >>Advents to the esoteric Magneplanars to a HeathKit DIY AM radio. > > My first stereo was a Heathkit... granted it was one my uncle built... > then he grew up and got a pair of real electrostat's (not those wanna-be > magnaplanars) and connected them to a pair of monoblocks he modified to be > able to push the down-to-1ohm electrostats.
Let's not be like that Steve. This is a forum for helping each other out with our addiction^Whobby, not to discuss who's is bigger. The point I was trying to get across was that extended exposure to numerous products is required to get a feel for how those products compare to each other and to select which one fits the budget and tastes.* > where do you work? I work here at my home office, in wealthy peoples' homes, in the average Joe's home, churches, nightclubs, corporate boardrooms, retail outlets, schools - wherever there's a need for complex A/V/automation systems and the altering of a buildings structural/electrical components is involved. >and can you get me a deal on the Anthem AVM30 or Parasound > Halo C2? ;-) If I called one of my competitors who is a dealer for either of those manufacturers, than yes. But that would risk my reputation in this business and I'd become a trunk slamming hack. Legit dealers of lines I don't carry will never help me out again and I'll risk losing my existing dealer agreements with the lines I do carry. There's just too many unlicensed, half-wit hacks in this business as it as and I'll never be able to buy a little island all my own on a hack's income =) Sorry. * Which is why Consumer Reports is a joke in my opinion. They take a /sampling/ of product from a given class of products, run it through a limited amount of testing by engineers who are not experts in that class of product. People who are unwilling to perform due diligence on their own deserve what they get. If the monetary stakes are high and the subject matter is above a consumer's ability to research by themself, they should hire a reputable expert in that area to help them form an educated and sound decision. A/V magazines are the worst offenders: Print something critical, you'll get blacklisted from receiving eval equipment and the mag loses the advert contracts. Most home inspectors are a freakin waste of oxygen, too. Experts my ass. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
