Quote Originally Posted by benjybobs
I once heard a pair of jamo's that would blow away any other speaker on the market. They were quite large and had 2 grills at top, 2 midrange, 1 horn and a 12 inch woofer, the system they were on isn't marketed but built to do the job properly. I can assure you that the quality of the speakers I heard was so good it was kinda frightning. I felt like I were actually there, I could also hear the real stereo sound in full 3d, even height to the sound.

My little tip to all that reads this is don't listen to others or those advice mags because all speaker companies are capable of making amazing systems. Quality comes from overall system balance to frequency relationship. there is a lot involved in sound, you could take any speaker and give it to a sound expert to build a system designed to match the speakers perfectly and it would sound a 1000 times better than you would ever belive. you can tune a system to match your speakers too.

Go for what you think or believe. If I had my way and the right equipment, i'd personally set up a system on a pair of jamos and show you how good they are. The way speakers sound isn't what we actually listen to, they create the waves yes, but there is more to sound than you would first think. it's not just a case of playing the sound flat. That doesnt get the best possible sound.

Many years ago I had a towerdeck systtem. not sure what it was but after adjusting the sound and getting it equal, and I spent hours of adjusting and wouldnt settle for that will do but aimed for as perfect as I could get it. I had a sound from a £200 system, that sounded like it was worth £2000. That system was intended on purpose for faithful sound reproduction and when set up, I had 3d sound from my stereophonic vinyals. The sound expressed every emotion and the difference of tones, you could hear everything, every instrument equally. the sound would pan left and right aswell as towards the listener and you could listen anywhere in the room and you would be the center of the sweet spot.

I'm gonna tell you honestly that all systems today are built for money making purposes only. Its a marketing thing, they have taken circuitry away that enables us to perceive the sound correctly, like the crosstalk problem. They just want to save on money, its a money ruling world. So make your own choice and don't listen to others.

If you heard what I have, you would understand that we can have perfect sound for our personal listening experience. If I had some equipment capable of good sound and I set it up and done a listening comparison with any system they rate, then I asked your opinion. You would clearly see the difference between a proper set up and their selling ratings are so far apart, its shocking.

Just picture a zx spectrum computer graphics vs a pc playing a game like crysis. that is the sort of difference that can be. The way the sound is presented on our current poor systems only masks the sounds and plays them at the completely wrong times in the wrong relationship in relation to other frequencys. It alrigth me saying this but you have to experience it to believe it.

So take your own personal choice guys, When trying to re-equalize the frequencys on systems sold today, it is imposible to balance because as you balance some of the frequencys it puts others out of balance. It isn't put together in a linear way.

I can promise you all that if you heard what I have, you would be gobsmacked for life. Sounded just like I was in heaven, speakers in reveiws they say has warm sound and stuff, ive heard them and they are appauling sounding in comparison.

A good sound system can sound better, more exciteing expressive sound on a lowish volume than a **** heap can at maxium volume. I hear lots of crap about listening positions and the sweet spot. With the properly way of playing back the sounds and right design, we can have the same perspective of stereo where ever we listen from, even outside of the speakrs. Just because things sound the way they appear doesnt mean they have to sound like it. Its the way they play the sound back that causes the treble to sound in front of the speakers. Everything can be made near perefct, better than my hearing and I used to have exceptional hearing. I don't know about now so much.

Make your own choices after listening, Thanks everyone who managed to get this far. Our quality of sound is taken away due to money saving. ps they had sound that good over 20 years ago. Nothing marketed is designed properly, it don't matter how good your components are if the design is wrong.

thanks
You write with an awful lot of (sic) authority and absolutes for a first post.