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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.[/quote] I kind of thought this way initially but the...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] If you can't relate to individual personal enjoyment as an ultimate goal of audio, sorry Bud, I can't help ya. [/quote]
Well, when you stick your finder, nose or whatever into a vise and someone will close the vise, coursi...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] I feel I am being objective when I say that a Mirrophonic system simply blows away Altec, Vitavox, TAD, etc. [/quote]
Joe, I am not a reader of your magazine and the phrase like “blows away” impress me very little. P...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]I thought I was quite clear about my evaluation program: Put it on. Play some music. Does it present a compelling emotional experience of musical enjoyment for me? If yes...GOOD! If no, maybe somebody else will like it. This...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] Memo to Silbatone: Associating yourselves with a person who expresses himself in this way will undermine your hard work and any credibility your products might deserve.[/quote] I kind of thought this way initially but the...
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Joe, I think I would battle it.
I would not be so certain. Mostly the SUV sized bass horns are notoriously bad sounding despite of the assurances of the system owners overwhelmed with so common in audio endowment effect. Not to mention that the Stag...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] Interesting concept but let me point out a few considerations.
The diffusor does performs a mild "equalization" function if you want to call it that but it is also an aid to dispersion. It is light "EQ"...3dB might be abou...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Nowadays, knowing what I know and understanding why some WE sound in the way they sound I would not expect that you will be able to touch the core of the WE Sound. I know the answers and I know that they are not possib...
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Well, I was a bit surprised to see that Joe Roberts post. My surprise was how afraid he is and how easily he might be manipulated. Also, I was surprised how accurate was my prediction that the pompoms Joe Roberts are getting his stinky marketing idea...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] The problem is two or three identifiable frequency-dependent sources has no reference in live music either …[/quote]
It is true, so the amount of the channels is not mandatory or necessary qualifier for sound reprodu...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] You have not heard Mangers, Aporia, or Loth-X speakers yet you thought sniffed yourself into an incredibly accurate picture of what they sound like. Great trick! [/quote]
It is not correct. I did not report the “in...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] What makes any particular goal higher, beyond the goal-owners high opinon of himself, his own preferences, and his listening acumen? [/quote]
A valid comment, I have nothing against it. There is however “lower goals”, or t...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] … in any way promotes growth of knowledge and understanding…[/quote] Well, when your agenda include growth of knowledge and development of understanding instead of pimping catchy hype for gullible simpletons then let talk. ...
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All of those full of pomposity and pretentiousness online confident professors have very pale appearance as they need to demonstrate the actual results. The mouth running is great but audio is not literature but Sound. So, the another half of the sto...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] Imaging...another hi-fi delusion. I used to record the Philadelphia Orchestra. The orchestra does not image.[/quote]
Would it be in 80 sunder Riccardo Muti? No wonder that it did not image. To be more serious I have to say...
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[quote user="Tuga"]Joe, Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy a good pizza. Unfortunately I won't find one in a Pizzahut. "That" man's 2 for 1 pleasure says a lot about his evaluating capabilities... I also enjoy several different kinds of music, mostly...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]The Western Electric L-9 in Munich was/is an infinite baffle design. The 754B woofers are in a sealed enclosure with a front horn. There is no possibility of cancellation between front wave and back wave of speaker, so I wou...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]As for my critique of "imaging" I do reject the mindless way the term is used these days, particularly when musical perception is equated with visual perception and visual logic and terminology are used to discuss and evalua...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]I would argue that the notion of point source is not the important thing about single driver speakers.[/quote]But we have all heard the difference, with standard stereo installations, where the bass comes from down below and...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] Yeah, but plywood is cheap and the result is audibly noticeable. Baffle extensions were recommended for all of the Altec VOT cabinets too. Make a big improvement for cheap if you have the space.
As the frequency dec...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
.... to feed the interests of marketing whores of Joe Roberts types.....The Cat[/quote]... all that is based on High end Show Germany, Munich with the Silbatone demos (Joe Roberts, WE Horns...) there you can find all th...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]The Manger is very different from Lowthers and other paper fullranges. It is very balanced and not peaky at all. Lowthers are lots of fun to experiment with but it seems the Manger is less idiosyncratic sonically, although i...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]Certainly, this sincere invitation was offered in part because they found you an interesting Cat, but I think that the offer was also inspired by the fact that you are writing pages of critique on items that you have not, in...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]I feel like I have heard every argument on the planet and I am not getting any new intellectual challenges here. [/quote]
Joe, it is what you think but it is not what I see. I do not insist that you shall experience a...
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[quote user="Stitch"]Silbatone made a Demo with those Horns (the big ones)They said, it is one of three existing WE Horns, made 1935/36 (only mod is the addition of the tweeter you can see there). One Horn is made for 3500 Visitors, so we got a 7000 ...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]Another reviewer who can write the review without hearing the product. Now THAT is something new. [/quote]There is nothing new in it. There are thousands reviewers and audio users who even after spending 40 years with a audi...
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It is very self-evident for kind public this clown is working. From all BS that was expressed about me I would point just two facts:
1) I never kicked Joe Roberts from my site and according to site's memebers log he keeps visiting daily.2) I d...
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Thanks for the link, Romy. This may be the first time I've "heard" that big WE installation and, sound wise, as I expected, it is everything I hate about "horns". Sadly, their "vaunted" direct radiators are a long way from coming to the rescue. If...
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[quote user="Stitch"] Sound was really lifelike, true in tone, for 1000 visitors in a cinema with a 2W amplifier....of course it can't be compared in rooms for one owner with pinpoint imaging, but it was a good performance. A lot of listeners scratch...
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[quote user="Stitch"] Well, I didn't come so close to answer your question right.I saw a few from the German DIY scenery and for them it was like the return of Jesus, best sound on Planet But probably they are still deaf as usual, because the Fre...
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