Keith G wrote:
"Rob" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
"Keith G" wrote

OK, that's the gamble I took, but the first pair are still on and really
do sound good - I might grab a snatch off 'em and post it later....

**WOT A ****!!!**

**WOT A PLONKA!!**

I've just gone to switch over to the radio (CD's finished and I'm off
down the garage again) and, as I was passing, twigged the bloody speakers
that have been on all this time while the CD was player were my bloody
*Pinkies*!!! (Amp's got A and B buttons for speaker output switching!)

:-)

:-))

:-)))

Anyway, I switched over and yes the newly-fettled jobbies do sound good
but it means I haven't really heard them yet!

(Couldn't fekkin' script it could ya, but what a nice reaffirmation on
the Pinkies - even better than asking the milkman!! :-)
:-)

At least your judgement didn't let you down - if it had been 'fit for
skip' a rethink might have been in order!



Yes there were tears of joy and relief when I realised my mistake!!

:-)

Interestingly, the two pairs of 'refurbished speakers' sound very different
(I have my own preference) but it is easy to forget it when listening to a
recorded TV programme, which is all I've had the time to do so far!! Kinda
confirms that the 'right' speakers for most people are the ones they have
got used to and goes some way to explain why so many people seem to be
seeking (or keeping) the speakers they had some decades ago!!



It is very much my experience that you can get used to anything
(almost!) and then *that* sounds right whereas anything else different
(even something measurably better) sounds "wrong". However, living with
the "wrong" sound for a while, that then takes on being "right".

In Broadcast, people have been using the Beyer DT100 headphones for
monitoring for over 20 years. They are clearly flawed, but people go on
using them as it's what they are used to and any change is disturbing.

I had one experience in particular some years ago with a pair of Canton
'speakers, I don't remember the model number, but they were their top
model at the time. The sound for me was intolerably bright, screamingly
so, but I lived with them for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks I
was finding them quite pleasant, and when I returned to my normal
'speakers (Meridian M2s) they sounded terribly dull for quite a while.

I also spent an evening with a pair of large Magnaplanars who's bass was
very boomy to my ears. However, by the end of the evening, it didn't
seem so bad. I wonder if this is what's behind so many reviews of
transducers where the reviewer said they sounded so much better after a
period of "running-in". I don't think it was so much the equipment
running-in as the reviewer's ears getting used to it.

S.