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Anyone see this train wreck in Stereophile?
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Wow. Yet no obvious conclusions from JA regarding it.
Looks ugly.
I wonder if that choppy treble is due to the battle being recessed.
I read that last week when I first got my copy.
Another excellent job by JA to report the measurements and then find a way to dance around having to make any real negative comments.
He thinks of inventive ways to maybe mitigate the top end problems with placement and tube amps that will alter the FR at the top..
Can't throw any dirt on Tom Gibb's rave.
"The ability of Volti Audio's Razz to portray music of any genre with scale, realism, and thrilling dynamics is unmatched by any loudspeaker I've had in my system."
I will say I heard their Rival's at the last Tampa show and thought they sounded nice. ???
I think they call that gaslighting..
Yeah, Stereophile is a business, so deference to manufacturers / advertisers wins over blunt conclusions. That's why I prefer to donate to ASR rather than pay for a Stereophile subscription.
BillG
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It's made of lovely wood, cost multiple thousands of dollars, and configured to reproduce a comb filter in the upper mid/lower treble region.
I can see the appeal...
I can see the appeal...
No, but he let the measurements speak for themselves. Let's say he was respectful of his readership's ability to interpret the graphs.
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"Roberts used a tape measure to align the centers of the tweeters, then, rather than point the tweeters straight ahead, or directly at my head, or somewhere in between, he pointed the left tweeter at the right, outside edge of my chair and the right tweeter at its left outside edge, so that their axes crossed slightly in front of me."
Nothing to hide here. Carry on.
Nothing to hide here. Carry on.
People who don't know or care about measurements will ignore and go by the subjective review. People who know how to interpret the measuments will ignore the subjective review. Win-win?No, but he let the measurements speak for themselves. Let's say he was respectful of his readership's ability to interpret the graphs.
Looks like it's tracing out a row of tombstones after around 2khz.
Tom Gibbs.
Maybe he's a new guy.
This looks to be his second review at the 'phile.
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Some prior scribblings listed below:
https://muckrack.com/tom-gibbs/articles
Well, they are affordable for a "majordomo"-designed speaker.
That is actually not suspicious at all. Similar kinds of extreme toe-in are advocated by Earl Geddes and Jorma Salmi of Gradient. This increases the lateral sweetspot while reducing early reflections, particularly for narrow-directivty-speakers."Roberts used a tape measure to align the centers of the tweeters, then, rather than point the tweeters straight ahead, or directly at my head, or somewhere in between, he pointed the left tweeter at the right, outside edge of my chair and the right tweeter at its left outside edge, so that their axes crossed slightly in front of me."
Nothing to hide here. Carry on.
Yes and no. The magazine I write for has never, ever asked me to hold back on my conclusions and has always backed me when manufacturers complain because what I wrote "won't help us sell this product." (actual phrase used by a speaker company whose product measured and sounded unimpressive)
One can have a commercial enterprise and still act ethically. I admit that in this business, it's the exception.
@Poseidons Voice has posted about these and the other offerings many times.
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