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Default Linkwitz Labs lx521 open baffle speaker

"Peter Wieck" wrote in message ...

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:21:21 AM UTC-4, wrote:


Anyone auditioned these speakers? comments, impressions on their sound?
They can be heard on youtube if nowhere else an option- please skip what
I know already i.e. youtube's limitations!


a) No, I have not auditioned these speakers.


Thank you for your candor.

c) The single most dangerous behavior a potential purchaser of audio
equipment might do in their quest is to solicit the opinion of others on
equipment they have not heard themselves.


Agreed. IMO another highly dangerous behavior is listening to speakers any
place but the final intended installation situation.

c) Whatever might apply to other-than-transducers applies exponentially to
transducers (speakers being one example of such).


Agreed, and doing casual auditions of electronics is utterly susceptible to
human bias towards hearing audible differences that are purely a matter of
perception and bias.

d) The second most dangerous behavior one might exhibit is to actually
purchase transducers at some sum more than common pocket change without
extensive auditioning *IN THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE!*


If you are going to base transducer purchases based on auditions,
auditioning them *IN THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACE!* is obligatory. Any other
kind of audition of speakers has questionable relevance.

Point being that no matter how well informed the opinions expressed here
might be, they are NOT yours, they DO NOT know your tastes or
peculiarities, and making decisions on outside influence will inevitably
lead to acute unhappiness.


That all said for over a decade I have purchased all of my speaker systems
sight unseen. Once I get the speakers in hand I work with positioning and
system equalization to get the sound I desire.

That last speakers I purchased were JBL LSR 308, obtained a few months back,
and they have worked out very well for me.