Advice about speakers

[theaudiohobby]

Just one post earlier, you said

Granted I don't trust every reviewer but Art Dudley of Stereophile (who by the way owns them now). Granted the competition but still...

Yet you've just reference almost every single reviewer that you know that has favourably reviewed Audio Notes in the press : It is "kitchen sink" throwing time, eh? Reviewers are only to be trusted when they recommend Audio Note then .

Duke said "theoretical maximum gain from corner placement is indeed 18 dB" you cannot get that in a real room and certainly not for over such a wide bandwidth. Look at the blue curve below (measured in Art's listening room), as expected corner loading does not do much for the lower midrange and upper bass which is down about 6dB from the reference point and the exaggerated upper midrange is there in all its glory.



There is no getting away from it loverboy, the E is one lean, bass challenged speaker. And I daresay that's probably one of its major selling points with domestic customers as its lack of mid and upper bass energy means that many room resonances in that region will be benign. downside, certain types of music will sound thin and bright through these boxes and any piece whose foundation is set in the bass will sound lifeless.