The Great Wall of Better Audio

[gmgraves]

On 7/31/2019 at 7:42 PM, GUTB said:

 

$200 seems like a reasonable price. Please be aware that they are very low-end. Cheap metal dome tweeter, 13 lbs, these just aren't good speakers.

Says he who knows nothing about said speakers. He hasn’t (presumably) heard them, does not know what brand or model they are - and here’s the kicker - he doesn’t even know whether the speakers were bought new or used because the OP didn’t say! For all he knows, those $200 speakers might have been a pair of older WATT/Puppies, or maybe a recently overhauled pair of AR3-AXs. While I seriously doubt the former, the latter is very possible and even today, a pair of AR3-AXs in good nick are very musical - the point being that once again, GUTB is making pronouncements about things which he has no knowledge other than price!

[gmgraves]

3 hours ago, Teresa said:

@gmgraves I think you missed a couple of posts from Page 1, they are above. @AudioDoctor told  @GUTB that they were B&W DM601 speakers so he does know what brand and model they are. 

 

Mea Culpa. You're right, I did miss that previous post. Still GUTB's rant is without any real value because his premise is wrong. In audio as in so many things, price dos not always equate to quality. For instance, I've a friend who recently bought a pair of Wilson Audio CUB Series two speakers with matching stands for US$1,200, almost new at an estate sale! They retailed for about FIVE GRAND and were still in the original shipping boxes. Don't tell me that because the speakers were cheap that they were junk as GUTB asserts! With the M-L 15-inch powered subwoofers my friend already had, the sound is jaw-dropingly magnificent.  

 

The point is that that if one is willing to do one's homework and shop around one can find bargains and get first rate equipment for bargain prices. The stuff might be previous models but with things like speakers, and turntables are great bargains because there's not much that go wrong withe them. Someone of my acquaintance was GIVEN a Thorens TD-124 turntable and plinth. It was cut-out for a standard SME arm. Since parts for the TD-124 are available and reasonable, he was able to restore the table for less than US$100. He bought a used Jelco 750 arm for it on the cheap, and has a very nice vinyl rig for a fraction of what an equal value new one would cost. I was given a Revox A77 high-speed (7.5/15 ips) half track recorder about a year ago, and am in the midst of restoring it with parts bought cheaply off of E-bay. I still need the two reel turntables and a pair of 10.5 reel hubs (it fell off a shelf during an earthquake, landed on it's face, broke the head cover and the broke/bent the two reel turntables and ruined the big reel adapters. Good, cheap audio IS available!