Quote Originally Posted by bobsticks
I agree that there are those on this site that confuse fact with opinion. I believe I am addressing one of them right now. Your airplane analogy is misleading because it deals with an accepted and scientifically provable constant--gravity. A more fitting storyline would be for you to tell everyone in AR that the pictures on their walls were all royal blue because in the last 10 or 20 years all the pictures you have seen have been royal blue and you read some reports saying all pictures are royal blue. And, if you haven't figured out in a couple decades that reviews can be some of the most slipshod, least accurate source for facts then you may want to petition Father Time for a mulligan.

I have heard Klipsch speakers and did not like what I heard. They were set up in a poor configuration with a subpar receiver in a room with no treatments. Do I make universal statements that all Klipsch speakers perform this way? I could, but that would make me sound a bit daft. Also, I know that many people, including the SET crowd and vintage lovers and,indeed, yourself, seem to get positive results from them. It would be safe to conclude that these experiences are the result of other variables at play in comparison to my own experience.

As for being "invested in doing things a certain way", on Tuesday I'm auditioning some new speaks of the cone variety. Should i find them to be a discernable improvement I shall snap them up on the spot and in subsequent conversations will begin with qualifying phrases such as "In my room..." or "I felt that.." etc. Ideed, dynamics and imaging will play a part in my judgements however I will conclude the results to be dependent on my situation (with all its variables included) rather than a universal statement of truth.

...And thanks for the compliment on my Sony DVD player. I don't own one, but at least you managed to say something nice although it was about as "factual" as anything else you've said.


--sonny boy
You realize what you have just stated havent you? That reveiwing equipment is worthless,
since no two pieces of equipment sound alike, you cant base a comment on a pair of Klipsch speakers because no two pair sound alike, and even if they did they are listened to in various conditions, so I guess reviews of equipment are worthless.
Actually Klipsch is trading on an old name, their new Chinese stuff has about as much to do with classic klipsch gear as your post has to do with logic
And their titanium tweeters tend to cause listener fatigue. OPPS! Made a universal statement there about Klipsh tweeters all being titanium !
And when you listen to those "cone" speakers you'll maybe notice that the sound is way more localized than the dispersed sound that comes from a electrostatic sheet.
And fifty thousand volts wont "short out" in the atmo, unless you have the current to go with it.
Crt televisions have high voltage power supplies of 30,000 volts or more and they dont "short out", move positive and negative far enough away and they wont no matter what the voltage. My mention of 50,000 volts was maybe an exaggeration, but stems from
an electrostatic design of a few years back that did utilize such voltages.
Nevertless the point still stands that electrostatics are a case of re-inventing a very nice wheel, they have no intrinsic or extrinsic advantage over a standard speaker, and have a lot of disadvantages, like a higher power bill for instance

Of course according to you all of this is mute, since stuff is listened to in various enviroments reviews of gear is worthless.
Maybe we should review living room furniture instead, see how it affects the "sound" of our gear