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The whole sighted test bias argument is a bit overstated in my experience. I've seen plenty of very biased "blind" tests that were a lot less valid then well controlled "sighted" tests. Anytime you precondition a listener by either bragging of a brand, price or what they'd expect to hear will...

No thanks.

Unfortunately I didn't directly compare them. I compared the Infinity's to the EMPs and the Pioneers to the EMPs and made notes. In addition, I made notes during extensive listening tests of each speaker individually. I think the Infinity's may have a slight edge in bass depth and less...

Both speakers are high value, good performers, especially at their sale prices. However, the Pioneer line has a MUCH better tweeter IMO. Having spent a couple of months with both, I'd lean towards the Pioneers. They suffer less power compression, and have a more detailed and balanced sound...

A lot of this is load dependent. You get a speaker like a Status 8T and it separates the men from the boys in amplification. A speaker like the Pioner AJ, not so much I think :)

It sounded ok on my old RBH T30-LSE speaker system. In fact, I liked the bass but felt the highs were a bit harsh. The first sample blew up during my bench testing and the second sample blew two channels during a simple speaker cable swap. Later they recalled all field units, but I still have...

ATI makes solid amps. I am sure they would very very neutral sounding with almost any load. With my speaker system, I do need a solid 600-1kwatt of power when I run my speakers full range with LFE signal. The Classe and Pass Labs amps I have on hand do great for 90% of my music listening but...

I'm going to try to get a switcher box that level matches and is remote controllable like the one Salk used at last Years GTG. DBT protocol is not necessary. The listener can't tell which amp is running. As long as you can level match and instantly switch between amps and preferably not...

Wow the poll results are interesting so far. It tells me you guys need to do a little more listening and not so much overthinking :eek: As someone who has over 10 years of audio design experience and about 15 years measuring and analyzing and most importantly LISTENING, I can tell you my...

Hmm I will have to check that as I also have an OmniMic system as well. It's certainly not perfect but its convenient.

Is that a product review or a Preview Article? I can't really tell.:confused:

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This is an interesting article about the inner workings and failings of Best Buy from a former employee. The Inside Story: A Prognosis of Best Buy from a Veteran Employee Where do you think Best Buy is heading?

You are looking at the wrong graph. The Grille on/off measurement was done at 1/2 meter just to more accurately show the losses associated with the grille. At that distance, the speaker doesn't fully integrate into its actual farfield response. If you look at the 1 meter graph, there is no...

You will get no argument from me there. I love my HD600s. They are hard to beat regardless of price. Sennheiser rules!

What 5dB peak at 4.5kHz? There is a gradual rise in HF around 5kHz peaking 5dB at 14kHz. Padding the tweeter down a couple of dB would probably be the most one would want to do to tame the HF energy a bit. I can understand why AJ chose to voice the tower a bit hot since its so short and the...

You don't want totally flat frequency response headphones. They would be quite painful to listen to. Also, it's very difficult to properly measure how a headphone couples with a human ear. Here are the measurements on the Sennheiser HD600s which I consider to be a true reference pair of...

What is that saying? "People that don't know audio/beer know b*se / b*dweiser" :)

These are V2 of the series so I don't think they have any changes planned ATM. I certainly hope not otherwise it would obsolete my review ;)

I think you made a good upgrade to the Pioneers but they do have limits too. Try bass managing them with a powered sub and your receivers bass management to see if that cleans things up a bit. The only issue is your older Yammie Xover is a fixed 90Hz setting. You can chose a sub with speaker...