"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:08:20 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

Ah, so you have adopted the Taguchi method, whereby you change many
variables at once rather than just one at a time. It is a kind of
evolutionary system, but you have to be really ruthless in kicking out
the crap. :-)



Sure, but the 'freedom' exists in there being no constraints of
expectation,
so they can be kicked out without too much stress if necessary.

Your advice to the poster Sharad (way above) is perfectly correct, but the
alternative would work just as well: Buy a pair of stunning-looking
speakers
that you really can *not* afford (divorce-inducing) with a truly 'world
class' name (Bosendorfer, Sonus Faber, Wilson &c.) and learn to ignore
their
shortcomings - just like you would with a pair of cardboard Wharfedales,
if
you had more sense than money....!!


Well I have my Sonus Fabers (Amator), and I listen to them with no
sense of any shortcomings I have to ignore. They are by now
seamlessly integrated with the sub, so all I have to do is switch on
and start listening.

It's like with cars, throughout my life, I have preferred to buy an
enormous
number of totally different cars (more out of curiosity than anything
else)
than try and work through 'improved' variants of the same make/model..!!
(With a V12 Jag at the 'top' of the list, I guess, all I would say is the
'best' cars have not been the *best* cars*..!! ;-)


I've had my share too - I used to go rallying in mki Escorts (RS1600
era) and I've been through the usual suspects since. But I'm happiest
with my current car which I've owned longer than any other - Audi S4
Avant (the Avant bit is the key).



I owned an Audi for a while but never drove it!!



Most successful make of car in my life..? - Suzuki, without a doubt, but I
wouldn't want one now.....

(Swim, OTOH, had had the same car for at least 15 years and won't be
parted
from it!)



Like an old pair of slippers!


No idea why she's so attached to it, even she says my old bus is a better
drive and damn near as fast!! (Citroen Xantia - 2lt petrol version,
seriously nippy and smooth as silk!!)