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Neil McCauley
11-12-2015, 12:09
Paul McGowan: Most of us think of the hot seat, sometimes better known as the Sweet Spot, as the center chair in front of our loudspeaker pair. And that would be correct. But as we begin this new year it’s instructive to open our thoughts to some new ideas. Why do we think it’s so essential to have “the big system” to reproduce our music? Can a bedroom system or a near field desktop pair offer up the same musical ecstasy as our bigger systems? Good friend and sometimes contributor to this column, Bill Low of Audioquest, has a few thoughts of his own on the subject.

“At 62, I don’t have any more time to go-to-the-music any more than does a 16 year old. As has been said better elsewhere, and for a long time, as long as the “audiophile” world thinks that we have to convert outsiders into behaving as we once did, as of course many of us still do, sitting in a triangle with speakers on the other side of the room … we are doomed to mostly failure.

The only possibility for us to earn a larger audience for better sound from speakers (as compared to from buds and headphones), is to.....

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