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Long winded response . . .

It would not be the first time someone was in back changing the phase on me. Last year it took us forever to figure out there was an out of phase driver on someone's line array. Woof.

Seriously Jeff, yours was the best of the big room boys. I really liked your show atmosphere as well as the speakers. No snobbery, just come on in and listen and we can talk. You even let me play my own CD. Overall, the speakers were extremely detailed and sounded full range.

As for the image, all the big room people were having a hard day with image. There are any number of reasons the image was high for me, least of which may have been the actual speaker. I was sitting a little off to the right, not dead center. The image was mostly centered for me (steering right as one would expect), but only sometimes seemed to move up. That is why I thought it the center, only some tapes used the center.

For the AA group: Nobody should be making life decisions on mine or anyone's comments from this show. Every dealer has about 24hours to set up in a strange environment where room design parameters did not include speaker auditions. Then we come in and have, at best, 30 minutes to evaluate an entire system with little to no input or component swapping. The whole time there is always someone chatting away nearby. Perhaps I am the guilty one for writing as if there are absolutes in my audtions, there are not.

The best a dealer can hope for is some good press and some of the auditioners liking the product/presentation enough to contact a local dealer to schedule a listen in the correct location: our homes.

This is one of the cases where the critics job is easy but I cannot imagine how hard the other side of the table is. Putting on my marketing cap, I would say the key to a show like this is to create wow and score on the warm and fuzzy atmosphere. Different dealers took different approaches to this. I am sitting here trying to form an image of what would have wowed me, other than an all nighter alone with wine and all my own CDs, but I cannnot. So I am stuck with 30 minutes to evaluate and form an opinion (Jeff, I could really tell the right interconnect between the CD and the preamp was older than the left, your really have to clean up your act!)

The only room that wowed me was a room which had equipment closest to my system (albeit a lot better electronics = Focus audio/Blue circle). So what does that tell us? It tells us we tend to like the sound we are used to. That is how B*se sells so much. They make expensive systems that sound like clock radios or cars.

Having said all this, I stand by my comments. It is the dealer's job to figure out how to wow us and there were few rooms which did that for me. That means one of the following: a) I have golden ears and know perfect sound, b) I am deeef, c) I am average and the conditions did not allow wow.

So thanks, Jeff, for coming to the show and for not commenting on my armpits.

P



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