MattHooper
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I noticed that - so what? It's likely fine as an amp but nothing to brag about. It's just a damn amp. None of them are special.
I was not mentioning the Hegel amplifier nor his preamp or DAC to dazzle anybody with the brand names.
I only mentioned the preamp and DAC to indicate he wasn’t using any low fidelity gear in that part of the chain either in his reference system.
The point is you were simply declaring his AVR “ superior” to his reference system without understanding the context in which he is using those more powerful amplifiers in his references system. The fact is he has many loudspeakers large and small, some hard to drive, which makes the more powerful reference amplifier more suitable than his
“ superior 80w AVR.”
You didn’t actually address what was my main point there.
As I explained back in 2019 (and probably sooner but that was the one I could find quickly), that is a dumb approach.
Congrats on the superior approach.
And yet there’s little to suggest his review got the character of the X6 wrong.
And as I mentioned, while not up to your technical standards, I’ve generally found both his and my own impressions of bass from the different loudspeakers in his room to match pretty well with measurements.
In fact, despite this idea that you could never get an account of the bass performance of a speaker in different rooms, I have found in decades of many speakers going through my room, that I have never been surprised by the character of the bass in my room, even if I first auditioned those loudspeakers elsewhere. In other words, if I heard good bass quality from a loudspeaker in a store or another audiophile’s home, it has not been extraordinarily difficult to realize essentially the same bass character and quality in my own room. I have also found plenty of reviews of loudspeakers to describe the bass quality of certain speakers, whether I heard those in a store or in my home or elsewhere.
So to me… yes I get that room correction is going to get the smoothest bass performance from a loudspeaker in a room, and even out wiggles they can happen in that room or another room. But I do not find a lack of bass correction in a review, or when I’m auditioning loudspeakers or listening at home, to be anything like the dealbreaker you do. YMMV.
And also, like I said, since he writes for soundstage many of the loudspeakers he has reviewed are also sent to the NRC for measurements, which are often available available for the reader.
Less so for some of the large “ flagship “.
loudspeakers he’s been reviewing lately, based mostly on being more difficult to ship, and that kind of thing.