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I am 45. I turn 46 in August.

I don't watch commercials. If I want to see a TV show, I buy it on DVD.

Unless you like pipe organ (I don't), your best bet is techno/electronica. Try Radioaxiom by Bill Lasswell or 100th Window by Massive Attack.

You are welcome. I became an audiophile at 16, the first time I walked into a local stereo store. I wasn't able to buy my first truly excellent system until four years later, in 1982 (Onkyo + Boston.)

I find the whole reputation system silly. It is on the same level as handing out little gold stars in elementary school. Besides, I have seen allegedly positive reputations assigned to those who do not deserve them, and vice-versa. (If it meant anything, I would have an immense number of green...

What astonishes me is the number of professional musicians I have met with really crappy audio systems!:eek:

Definitely placebo.

Excellent point. Also entirely correct. There are things of a purely technical nature for me to learn, but I am already an expert when it comes to judging sound quality.

I have tried seven pairs of floorstanders in my room so far, and all of them have that same bass issue. It has never been a problem with bookshelves. I have managed to get the bass per se to sound right with a sub (by setting the sub volume to about 1 or 2 out of 10), but never managed to fully...

By bass-heavy, I mean that they (and all large floorstanders) put out too much bass for my relatively small listening room (20' sq. total, actual listening are 12'X20'), with the result that the bass overwhelms the higher frequencies. This is obvious to anyone who has ever tried large speakers...

Athough the 802s are used by some studios, they are not marketed as "studio monitors" and therefore fall outside the scope of this discussion. Also, if I were going to put any 800 series speakers in my room, it would have to be the 805s as the rest are too big and too bass-heavy (and when I...

Not at all. I have never acted like an idiot. Quite the contrary, I know enough about audio to not be fooled by the things that others such as yourself are obviously taken by, such as price and "name brands". Also, my stereo is among the best ever made.

Wow! Some really amazing coincidences there, almost like a "Twilight Zone" episode!:D

Same thing as what, exactly? If you read my posts, you will notice that my arguments are always logical and my opinions are always based on knowledge and experience. If you have a complaint about some specific post, by all means report it. Otherwise, stop making false accusations and...

I don't know if there is any agency that does this. The end users will automatically reinforce the standard, though. A "studio monitor" that fails to deliver on the requirements of flat frequency response, extremely low distortion, lifelike dynamic range, wide dispersion, and/or ability to play...

Obviously a guy who really knows his stuff and has excellent taste.

I would bet that upwards of 90% of the people who post in both forums use different names. Besides, the guy you are referring to over there sounds like someone not well liked. I, in stark contrast, have accumulated 141 "thanks" and 3 green chicklets.

I wouldn't know, since I will never be anywhere that has those (certainly nobody within 300 miles of me has them!) I do know, however, that if they sound different then they must be doing something wrong. The sound of studio monitors is a standard, not a matter of taste like home speakers. That...

a) I concede that differences could appear at vastly higher volume levels than I would ever seriously consider listening at. I have never turned any speakers up loud enough to excite resonant modes. b) I was referring to the objective standard that insures all monitors output the same...

One of my favorite listening experiences is hearing massive bass from speakers that appear too small to produce it (this is one of the reasons I still enjoy my Cambridge S30s now and then. Tiny speakers with almost inconceivable bass!) Having a sub in the room totally destroys this effect. If...