Speaker Asylum: Re: I upgraded to AN J's and other speaker musings. LONG :-) by DRCope

Speaker Asylum: Re: I upgraded to AN J's and other speaker musings. LONG :-) by DRCope

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Re: I upgraded to AN J's and other speaker musings. LONG :-)

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In Reply to: Re: I upgraded to AN J's and other speaker musings. LONG :-) posted by morricab on June 9, 2004 at 08:06:47:

You are painting with a mighty broad brush. Rejecting someone's enthusiasm for a particular speaker as unwarranted because of some generic assumptions about an entire class of speaker design is no substitute for having listened to the specific products under discussion.
There is something about listening to AN speakers that gets some people really jazzed up, and every time one of those listener/owners shares his experience on AA, someone, (who genereally has never heard them), leaps forward to deride the enthusiast and dismiss all box speakers, or all two way speakers, etc . . . . I wonder why that is?
BTW - I've owned and sold Apogees and Maggies, and owned Quad '57's. Each does some very seductive things. Each has a a flaw or flaws that I found so distracting I had to give them up. For that matter, I owned DQ-10's, (several times!) which were a fascinating exercise in non-boxy design using 5 dynamic drivers. It was a lovey speaker, too, but integrating 5 drivers to a seamless blend is really an impossible task, and so they, too, fell by the wayside.
A major shortcoming, for me, with all of the above, except the Quad, is that to get them going requires a fairly high-powered solid state amp, the sound of which I never much liked, and since hearing SET's in the mid 90's, have given a very wide berth.
Your mileage may, and very likely will, vary. . . . .

Keep your ears and your mind open.

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Topic - I upgraded to AN J's and other speaker musings. LONG :-) - RGA 22:20:17 06/7/04 ( 30)

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        Re: I upgraded to AN J's and other speaker musings. LONG :-) - RGA 12:30:38 06/11/04 ( 0)
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