You're wrong- any personal preference about something like speakers is purely subjective and if a choice is made by using specs, it's an objective decision. I started selling audio in early 1978- I have listened to far more equipment that you likely have and, while I stopped working at that store in 1988, I'm still in the audio business, so my guess WRT the number of different speakers I have heard is somewhat less than 10,000 models but I couldn't be sure because I never cared to count them.
Whether many reviewers like them in immaterial to any choice I might make but you seem to have missed a major point- when I mentioned the 50-17KHz spec and performance, that was the early ones- I never mentioned the ones that came after the 1970s.
When did reviewers become unbiased?
Don't take it personally- you didn't design or build them and you should read the comments before writing that someone looks like silly.
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I dunno why, but this thread just struck me as interesting. I started way back in the day with the Klipsch line of speakers up on a personal pedestal: they were something to be achieved someday if I was lucky and rich. I'm talking the big heritage (that's what they call them now, they were current tech back then) style speakers like the Klipschorns and the Heresy's and the other big format types. I was in awe of them.
Fast forward a bunch of years and I bought smaller Klipsch speakers for my home theater setup and for a decade they were my everyday speakers. I discovered their shortcomings and also discovered the shortcomings of those gigantic heritage ones as well. Such as I've never owned a home big enough to fit them in. Technology marches on and we are now in 2023, not 1973. I love the idea of the big Klipsch speakers but the reality falls short for me.
I agree. Reviewers can be bought and sold and they are almost certainly biased in their reviews. One of their most obvious bias is the food bias. If they want to put food on the table you better say nice things about the speakers you review for a magazine that pays you for the effort. Not always. Not every time. But certainly, its common as dirt.
I think one of the things common on the AH, and other places as well, is people take the opinions of others personally. If an offered opinion is opposed to one held by the poster, they often as not take that as a personal affront and respond as if someone kicked their dog. A deep breath and something else to go do would be time much better spent than most of the knee jerk replies to imagined insults. I'm going to go play some Warcraft now.
