To my three Amigos-not Chevy Chase, Martin Short, Steve Martin- but Ezra, Allen, and Mike Wright.
Here's my response to your comments on the ULF Be's comparison to the standard ULF's:
1) All three of you have spent together, being very generous at estimating this number, maybe a total of four and a half hours listening to the ULF's in my system. I have spent hundreds of hours in front of them, along with using many different upstream components to drive them for reviewing purposes and to exactly tune my system to my personal taste. I think this vast experience, compared to your very brief exposure, would give me a more objective take on the differences between the two models then your cursorary experience.
2) Well, my "Golden Ear Amigos" when I went over to get a take on the Ulf Be's and compare an amplifier I have in for review to Ezra's T+A piece, I brought a pair of jumpers and my own speaker cables to use in this process and this revealed that the cables that were in the system were causing a severe malfunctioning in the imaging. When we played a Diane Krall number that has her dead in the middle sitting behind her piano, the system, with Ezra's speaker cables split her voice in two pieces that were plastered on the side walls with no middle image. Hum, when Ezra, Allen, and Mike came to the conclusion that there is a vast difference between the ULF models this was based on a fundamentally out of tune system when they did their listening to it. By the way, Ezra purchased my cables, gave him a great price, and I gave him as a gift the pair of jumpers, so now his system is in order.
3) Listening/hearing what a system or an individual component sounds like is a "subjective art" not an objective measure. Personal taste always is part of the "take" on how anyone experiences what they are "hearing". However, based on what I stated above, I think it's fair to state that my three Amigos are jumping to an arbitrary conclusion regarding that the Ulf Be's is a superior speaker compared to the standard Ulf's. They are MUCH more similar in their performance, and if they are different it's very subtle, indeed. Both speakers are beautiful music makers, if they were driven with the exact same upstream gear, in the same acoustic space I still believe they would be sonicly remarkably close together.
