[Phil Allison[_4_]]

Trevor wrote:

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I heard the Paragon many times in the 70's and
loved it. BUT "neutral and uncolored" is not something I'd call it. It
had plenty of bass ripple, and the mid horns had plenty of resonances
too. A waterfall plot would be very revealing I imagine. In fact I would
have said that was a good example of the "wow factor". So effortless in
producing a huge dynamic range, but far from "uncolored".


** I also heard the famous JBL Paragon in about 1971, at "Instrol Hi-Fi" in York Street, Sydney. Fraid I was singularly unimpressed.

Sounded like an oversize stereo-gram to me.

At the time, contraptions like the Bose 901 and Sonab's "omni" speakers were all the rage.

I disliked them cos they were all *sound effect* producers, not hi-fi speakers.

The marketing puke that backed them up was an insult to one's intelligence.



..... Phil