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zako wrote:

ROMY  Your analogy of fitting the foot to the shoe is on the right track... Some times you need is a better pair of sox,,,You dont need to change the decorum of the Symphony hall..When you have a shitty orchestra,,,  Sometimes rearranging the musicions helps...Stakowski did this to make a more cohesive sound..Looking at the stack of your system,,,some rearrangement is needed,,and fireing those groups not needed,,,a tighter and more cohesive size is needed,,,,,JBL,s new EVEREST II speaker is a case in point... They threw everything out redesigned everything,,All drivers were completely redesigned everything,,,,Inside the units do not resemble anything used today,,,Every thing you or I are useing today are like that shitty orchestra.  Yes a new more cohesive BOSTON Symphony musicion talent is now needed.. Just like your drivers and TT horns,,, I now this is a shocking statement,,and you will try to resist,,but your system (and mine)needs replacing... the Vitavox S2 is an old trolly compaired to The JBL 476be,, This is a true fact,,,I will not shit you,,,It has a wider bandwidth with lower distortion,,,and a better propergation horn,,,You have built a Iron wall like the Berlin wall,,and needs to be torn down,,to let in the blinding fresh light... Think about this before responding,,,Take your time forming your words,,  This is now the time for you to catch up,, My analogy is you dont fly in a canvas covered airplane to fly from NewYork to LosAngelous in one hour... it is now possible to do this in a YF12 scramjet airplane...  This is now possible in the new speakers designed today.. I will elaborate more later...      MARON

Zako,

You said “The room is telling you that your speakers are wrong” - I do not know why you feel my need for better speakers took place only in context of the new room.  Your comment is wider then juts Macondo in the new room, it does not make them less valuable but in the way your position is irrelevant in context of the room. Regardless how inferior Macondo is - it does not perform as it did in my old room. I am not panicking and consider it expected. I did not work with Macondo in the new room yet, I will, and it will be better.  Still, the concept of Macondo is not a fixed design but a set of axioms that define design, so it is possible that as my familiarity with the sound of my room progresses I will find a need to modify something in Macondo.

Now, about your feeling regarding to what I do vs. what JBL does. It is not “shocking statement” and I will not resist. I do not have JBL 476be and I do not know how interesting it is. I did hear a few newly designed drivers/systems and it was not the direction of sound I fund interesting for myself.  I did not near the EVEREST II, I will if you feel I need but I do not expect a lot of revelations and there are a lot of reasons why. You said: “tighter and more cohesive size is needed”? I do not know if it is corrects. In way smaller room the “expanded” Macondo did very good, I mean VERY good. Now in much larger room if does not have this “magic”, so why the tighter and more cohesive size is needed in this larger room?

Again, I do not against the Macondo’s criticism. I would LOVE to hear.  I have even a thread “Macondo vs. the Industry sponsored speakers” where I was trying to share my views on the subject:

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=7379#7379

I might be right or wrong but I think it is important to understand that in my current state Macondo set and therefore it does not work properly in my current room. Therefore the successes or failures of my current Sound I do not find as something that is indicative about Macondo design ideas.  It would be similar to judging Sound of output tube by plaguing it to any voltage random voltage, driving though it any random current, loading it to any random load and driving it with any random driver…

Zako, I would like to hear your more elaboration on the subject and I hope that with my progress in my room I will be able to battle your view.  I personally do believe in what Macondo stands for and when I bring it to the point I feel it demonstrates what I meant to express then I would not mind to play it for you.  Any competitive and relevant thinking I think worth only by practical results.  Perhaps my experience with Macondo is too isolated and lost track of what is being done out there? Perhaps, I doubt but perhaps.  Last years I do not have a lot of exposure to what is done out there – I do not go to shows, I do not actively travel in people houses as I use to do and I do not go to the demos in high-end salons.  Perhaps the Audio World has moved way beyond of my little room and if it is a sentiment you would like to pass then I would say “possible”. Still, what I know about the “Audio World” makes me to feel that you might be incorrect. I will take you position under advisements and will continue working on my Macondo.

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