On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:05:52 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:14:42 +0100, "Fleetie"
wrote:

I just got a pair today.

OMFG! They sound so, so, so detailed and revealing in the treble!

Quite so.

I'm in love! Plus I got 50 quid off for no apparent reason.

They're not fashionable.

Also, in the context of 'bang for your buck', they are very expensive for a
tiny, wee box - poor perception of VFM by the 'uninformed' and therefore not
selling too well, I suspect.....

Yup, some people just haven't 'got' the sub/sat thing yet! Stick a
good sub on a pair of 52SEs, and you are up there with the best at
*any* price.

Well, the Contours are only *fractionally* better, and big planars
take up an awful lot of room.......................

I auditioned a pair of Contour 1,1s for a few days - quite the best
bookshelf speaker I have *ever* heard and a beautiful veneered finish but,
again, not cheap.

A very fine speaker indeed, but note that the SE version of the 52
uses the same drivers, so the sonic difference is not great.

Better sell on my Mission 752Fs and Cyrus II to defray some of the
cost of these recent expensive purchases!

Good luck - you can then afford more 52s for the rear channels, and
enjoy the only *real* advance in music reproduction in the last 20
years.....................


I hope you don't mean 'surround sound'........???

I mean multi-channel sound, which makes a *huge* difference to realism
if you have a good system - and some decently mastered recordings.
Even good ol' DSOTM takes on a new lease of life!
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering