On the positive side of your question, try to find a CJ PV 12. My point is, the high value good stuff is well known. How long an item can last "for sale" on Audiogon speaks volumes in regard to your question.
Is there any bad sounding high-end gear--?
I was reading the thread here today about biased reviewers-
it got me thinking, out of the stuff which is reviewed in the publications which serve the high-end arena, is there really any bad sounding gear?----I am talking about from what I call the golden era of High-end, 1990---2000, stuff from the major players like ARC, CJ, Krell, MLevinson, Jadis---etc-----I use this time frame as this was the pre-Chinese era when most gear was from the US, we also saw stuff from Italy, France and Swiss made stuff.
When I have purchased something and not liked it, I always struck it up to a system mismatch----
If anyone can provide what they bought and really thought it was terrible, I'd be interested to know what it was.
it got me thinking, out of the stuff which is reviewed in the publications which serve the high-end arena, is there really any bad sounding gear?----I am talking about from what I call the golden era of High-end, 1990---2000, stuff from the major players like ARC, CJ, Krell, MLevinson, Jadis---etc-----I use this time frame as this was the pre-Chinese era when most gear was from the US, we also saw stuff from Italy, France and Swiss made stuff.
When I have purchased something and not liked it, I always struck it up to a system mismatch----
If anyone can provide what they bought and really thought it was terrible, I'd be interested to know what it was.
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Tonykay, I would also share your thoughts about speakers that cost larger than luxury vehicle. Regardless, if some R&D done you can get same or better performance for your room getting away 20 times less. Recently I've auditioned http://www.amazon.com/Event-Opal-750-watt-Active-Monitors/dp/B0020J23L8 and was truly impressed with price for performance. |
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