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Mani, BTW, if Silbatone-pimping Joe Roberts showed up in here then it had to be the Aporia speakers with the back-loaded single Manger were presented in the show. Why would Silbatone otherwise to drag to the show that big and expensive mastodon...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]I am past fetishishizing on gear and detailed quasi-scientific evaluation programs. I am a music listener again. All I care about, really, is my individual enjoyment. I am not comparing live vs. memorex. I am criticizing t...
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The conversation with Joe Roberts in the thread about the Silbatone Acoustics speakers were we discussed the opportunely to hear the authentic WE Mirrophonic installation made me to think about something. From one side we audio people would like to h...
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[QUOTE]I have to admit that it is not a good idea to judge a loudspeaker based upon somebody else’s comment[/QUOTE]Yet you continue to do it again and again... why? You know its bogus, I know its bogus, they know it is bogus. Dude, it is BOGUS. Just ...
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The Other End of the Single End: Modern Horns Done With Flare An Interview With Dr. Bruce Edgarby Dave Glackin, printed in POSITIVE FEEDBACK. 1996
Dave Glackin interviewed Dr. Bruce Edgar in his home, prior to the 1996 WCES. A follow-up on the speak...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]What happens when drivers have different radiation patterns ….?[/quote]
Actually nothing happens. I pretty much discard any conversation about different radiation patterns for channels as if the Macondo Axioms are pur...
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Yo Romy, face it... you need a smiley menu on this joint. For this exchange, I could use the one with rolling eyes and the one where one smiley whips out a hammer and konks the other smiley on the head with it a few times.Your cat architecture p...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"]… our goal for the speaker is "big horn sound in normal sized rooms"--and 8W will do that.[/quote]
I think I missed it. This is erectly what I disagree with. I do not feel that a single driver dipole speaker is capabl...
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To summarize the thread, at least what is important - not the Robert’s cheap clownship, I have to admit that I spoke with a number of people, the people who are NOT the “exuberant morons” in my view, who went to CES and heard Silbatone Aporia. ...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] The notion of meeting up for a penis swinging competition is a dreadful thought. My tool is happy where it is, safe and warm in my shorts. [/quote]
I kind of missed it in my initial reply but I think it is important. There...
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[quote user="Joe Roberts"] At least I have significant WE experience! Romy, you have none to speak of, yet you are super-opinionated on the subject. Someday you might learn the truth. The big WE horn systems are a different league entirely from m...
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[QUOTE]Would it be in 80 sunder Riccardo Muti? No wonder that it did not image.[/QUOTE]You guessed it....say no more. I was not a huge fan of Maestro Muti, but the society babes who had season tickets definitely liked the leather jackets and the fain...
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First thing first. I was running under impression that the cost of Silbatone Aporia under $100K. I was looking where I might get this impression from. I am sure it was a comment at some CES blog but I was looking and was not able to found it. Most li...
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The funny and poor Tuyen. It looks like another audio guy, as Russians says, “went over the hands”. The “went over the hands” is a very interesting Russian idiom that use very frequently apply to audio people. Years back it was once very deservin...
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It looks like the Koreans brought some WE hors to Munich
show again, this time with own MOSFET electronics. Oh, my God, where is the ever-presented
and ever-running his mouth Joe Roberts with his stupid assurances that there is nothing
better in t...
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Somebody sent me a link with the Seoul gentlemen who have those piles of WE gear.
http://blog.silvercore.de/blog/2013/02/01/man%c2%b4s-cave/#more-739
It is interesting warehouse-like looking space that more reminds me Home Depot t...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"] In the few converstaions I've had with him, Mike seems totally sincere and, as I've mentioned before, I very much hope he will one day come through.[/quote]Oh, sure, Mike is perfectly sincere and this is BTW might be ...
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Today a friend of my sent me a link. I have no idea who it is, look like an Asian installation. Since it is WE-like system it most likely somebody from Joe Roberts crew, or the similar audio-bullshiters. I am sure that the owner of the system wil...
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[QUOTE] Joe Roberts wrote: Did you actually read 1980s TAS or just thought sniff it? I think I know the answer.
Nope, I did not. I arrived in US in 1992, spoke no English and was able to read cognitively after 1994-95. [/Quote]Well check it ou...
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I do not know what sound Silbatone demonstrated at the show. If it was not “accidently spectacular” (which sometimes happened at the shows) then it is irrelevant what it was. Conceptually Silbatone did not show anything new or stimulating that move ...
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I am with skepticism treat that information about those WE demos. WE never did any interesting playback system solutions that might be stimulating in today home audio environment. At the time when WE was operational the requirements were very differe...
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I am in minor scale mode toady and play mostly chamber music and only records. FM broadcasts with all their majesty are hardly objective tool to assess what doing on with audio. So, I play records and tapes. Besides everything I am trying to figu...
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Thanks, floobydust.
There are a lot of interesting points in you post to consider. What speaker you drive with your 2A3? If they are relatively high sensitively (like compression drivers) then did you consider going with a single stage? I think I ha...
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Joe, I do appreciate that that invitation is open-ended and I might take advantage of it sometimes. Frankly I do not feel any specific temptations that I need to “drop everything” and to run to another side of the globe to audition the Silbatone. The...
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[quote user="scooter"] Getting reasonable sound would be an entirely different beast, however...[/quote]
This is very much true and even it is an audio centric-site I kind of was avoiding this direction as I would like to keep the thread in m...
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Ok, I did play today with the MiniMe. I have to tell that then it turn black I kind got soften with it does not look to me as large and violent as I initially thought. I made some measurement and some listening. I peaty much know what I want to be an...
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Back in end of 90s, we read articles by Thomas Dunker, Joe Roberts, Bruce Edgar, and many others (some of them were designers and some of them just publicists) who were trying to persuade that horns are some kind of advantageous topology and that...
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"Chesky Records is pleased to introduce the 192/24 series. These discs are not limited editions but one-to-one copies of our 192khz 24bit master discs. The discs contain standard 192khz 24bit .wav files that you can copy to your computer's ...
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In the audio world my judgments is known as vitriolic but looking at myself from outside I find myself being overly pleasurable and expending too much credit to the wrong people and wrong events.
Recently I read a new review in 6Moons about t...
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Well, I was there, which is more than The Cat can say. In fact, The Cat never heard a complete WE system first hand, so I'll have to take that into advisement when the expected foaming-at-the-whiskers rant.I always wonder why people would giv...
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