The Lux is worth a listen, though. It isn't boring somehow. I trusted the Stereophile Fremer review on that.Originally Posted by jandl100
You might not agree we'll see when you come over.
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The Lux is worth a listen, though. It isn't boring somehow. I trusted the Stereophile Fremer review on that.
You might not agree we'll see when you come over.
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I don't think I've ever seen the word smooth used so much as in that Fremer review.put me right orf, it did!
Usually it takes me a few hours to realise that I'm just not taking much notice of the music any more with ss class A - so a brief visit may not sway me one way or the other.
Will have a look and see when I can come over.
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"You'll love it" he said "Really smooth".
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"Smooth" often equates to dull but the two aren't the same at all.
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I'd bring it over for MBLness but it's just too friggin' heavy.I don't think I've ever seen the word smooth used so much as in that Fremer review.put me right orf, it did!
Usually it takes me a few hours to realise that I'm just not taking much notice of the music any more with ss class A - so a brief visit may not sway me one way or the other.
Will have a look and see when I can come over.
A guy came over to let me listen to a piece of gear he was selling.
"You'll love it" he said "Really smooth".
I hated it.
Anyway, back to the ML....
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I kept bumping into him at Munich last year. However, I did not communicate with him.
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I tend to like what Michael Fremer has to say. Not read anything by him for a long time though.
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Well, they can be.
I think there are two types of smooth - tonal (where the top is rolled off, which I also don't like) and dynamic (where subtle changes in level are, well, smoothed over and the music becomes laidback, less immediate, like you are hearing it from the back of a concert hall rather than nearer the stage).
It's the dynamic smoothness that I am referring to in this thread.
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The logical assumption is that we are striving for our hi fi to make the music sound "real", but in my case I'm not so sure any more. I'm thinking that if I enjoy the music coming from my speakers, then sod "realism", whatever that may be! As stated on another thread (started by Gaz yesterday), live music isn't all that, most of the time.
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
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