By the way, who are you to tell anyone how to post anything?
Oh I forgot you are the self appointed guardian of good taste and propriety.
Words, you seem to write more than I do and you always seem to want to get in the last word.
If you read what many people on this thread acutally said they found our posts to be beneficial, while others just advised you to stop your self rightous behavior and just stop reading, while others people who have actually been to our shop have been delighted with the experience.
And lastly, you have NO DIRECT EXPERIENCE WITH MY SHOP YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE, NOR HAVE YOU DIRECTLY WORKED WITH ME TO KNOW FIRST HAND IF MY GUIDANCE WOULD HAVE HELPED YOU SAVE MONEY OR CREATE BETTER SOUND!
So your opinions are based on not liking my "salesmanship" or the fact that we have for years been promoting products such as Nuforce, Usher, and Scaena that consistantly challange the status quo.
Just as you challenged our assertions on the Ushers which both the BE and DMD version were universally lauded as being amoung the best speakers especially for the BE and DMD 718 now you are denying the truth about the Personas, which is they too can challenge any of the major brands that are so bandied about here including Rockport, Magico Wilson Focal and others.
The sonic signature of any speaker or any component will be based on the entirty of the setup so to presume that based on one demo you like or don't like a product is specious reasoning and also presuming that dealer x knows what they are doing just because they have a product or that their setup is going to be a good one is also wrong.
I am also not saying that I am the only one to get good sound from the Persona or any of the other products that I sell.
What I am saying is that for many of our setups we painstakingly seek out and find matching components that really create synergy.
Our 2012 New York audio show room one feature the Scaeana Line Array with the CJ Art and Gat, Kubala Sosna Cabling, and EMM Labs Digital this was a very well received setup which Johnathan Vallen also found to work like magic together.
Our Kef Blade setup featured the Chord Reference electronics, Esoteric Digital and Enklein cabling, also a great setup. We used Stillpoints racks, Running Springs or Audience Power conditioning, Shakti holographs, Acoustic System resonators etc. Our room was setup with the kinds of reference level gear that the Blade deserved not by their price point but by the level of their performance.
Compare our setup of the Blades to what KEF routinly showed them with, Parasound JC 1 and JC 2 preamp with ? cabling. We are a Parsound dealer JC 1 monos are decent amplifiers, but got their butts kicked by the Electrocompaniet AW 400 and the Chord mono amps.
So do you think if you heard the Kef Blades on system one vs system two you might have a different opinion of them?
So how do you actually know how good our setups are other than what you were exposed to at an Audio Show and if you actually heard our store setups they were usually far better than what you can get out of a sub optimal hotel room.
Dave owner
Audio Doctor NJ
