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General speaker questions for audio and home theater.

RE: Got to listen to MBL X-tremes last night

They are pretty awesome speakers if you get them to work in your room. At one audio show I ranked them bottom 5. At the next show they ranked number 1.

Looks are subjective but I like them.

One thing to note that I was advised about. At shows and dealers - you are only listening for a relatively short period of time and folks tell me that they excel when played at fairly loud levels. At low levels they are not as good (again what people and owners tell me). I have generally only heard them fairly loud.

Even if this were true - it would not matter depending on the type of listener the person is. If you are the sort that listens for 1-2 hours every day this will probably be fine - if you listen for 8 hours maybe not so fine.

As for money/value - Jeff Bezos makes more than $250,000 every time he takes a wee. There are a lot more people out there who can drop $250,000 like you or I would buy a soda from a vending machine than people realize. MBL has no interest in plebeians like us.





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