Re: Crossover questions.....

Keith G wrote:
"Rob" <remove_patch_oulian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2dGdnQUiQojD3SzYRVnyhwA@xxxxxxxxx
Keith G wrote:
"Keith G" <keith_g@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

OK, that's the gamble I took, but the first pair are still on and really do sound good - I might grab a snatch off 'em and post it later....

**WOT A TWAT!!!**

**WOT A PLONKA!!**

I've just gone to switch over to the radio (CD's finished and I'm off down the garage again) and, as I was passing, twigged the bloody speakers that have been on all this time while the CD was player were my bloody *Pinkies*!!! (Amp's got A and B buttons for speaker output switching!)

:-)

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Anyway, I switched over and yes the newly-fettled jobbies do sound good but it means I haven't really heard them yet!

(Couldn't fekkin' script it could ya, but what a nice reaffirmation on the Pinkies - even better than asking the milkman!! :-)
:-)

At least your judgement didn't let you down - if it had been 'fit for skip' a rethink might have been in order!



Yes there were tears of joy and relief when I realised my mistake!!

:-)

Interestingly, the two pairs of 'refurbished speakers' sound very different (I have my own preference) but it is easy to forget it when listening to a recorded TV programme, which is all I've had the time to do so far!! Kinda confirms that the 'right' speakers for most people are the ones they have got used to and goes some way to explain why so many people seem to be seeking (or keeping) the speakers they had some decades ago!!



It is very much my experience that you can get used to anything (almost!) and then *that* sounds right whereas anything else different (even something measurably better) sounds "wrong". However, living with the "wrong" sound for a while, that then takes on being "right".

In Broadcast, people have been using the Beyer DT100 headphones for monitoring for over 20 years. They are clearly flawed, but people go on using them as it's what they are used to and any change is disturbing.

I had one experience in particular some years ago with a pair of Canton 'speakers, I don't remember the model number, but they were their top model at the time. The sound for me was intolerably bright, screamingly so, but I lived with them for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks I was finding them quite pleasant, and when I returned to my normal 'speakers (Meridian M2s) they sounded terribly dull for quite a while.

I also spent an evening with a pair of large Magnaplanars who's bass was very boomy to my ears. However, by the end of the evening, it didn't seem so bad. I wonder if this is what's behind so many reviews of transducers where the reviewer said they sounded so much better after a period of "running-in". I don't think it was so much the equipment running-in as the reviewer's ears getting used to it.

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