The problem is if you have to sit through demo after demo of sub par sound, you will go off listening to music and audio pretty quick.
Ron Resnick Launches Audio Cafe LLC, a New Clarisys Audio Dealer
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Congratulations and best wishes for success!
I don't think you'll have trouble avoiding bias - after all, it you can always specify your preference for dipoles as well as the business side... (i, for one, also give my bias for dynamics, etc when offering subjective opinion)
BTW, I too had a pair of Calipers, then Duettas back in the time...
With all this talk of intellectual honesty and your proving it over time in conjunction with casting yourself as a highly visible and vocal person in high end audio - a public figure - I want to ask you about your prominently self-displayed status as a reviewer in the first line of your signature.
As far as I know you've been published by Matej Isak on his Mono&Stereo Web site. I understand that Isak labels you as "Senior Contributing Reviewer". If you have published work elsewhere or under a psudonym I am unaware of that. Publication to me means you have a publisher and an editor who reads your writing before it is published, at least minimally checking it for spelling and grammar, and that the writer is meeting the publication's protocols and rules. Reviewing means, at a minimum, that your writing about a product is based on using it yourself in your own audio system under controlled conditions where you have experience with that system for some period of time (not show conditions), that you actively use the product for some period of time, whether it is compatible with the other equipment in the review system, and that the review is checked for technical accuracy and current msrp by the manufacturer and/or distributor. Pretty standard stuff for an audio review.
Best as I can tell your first published article at M&S was in 2016 and your last was in 2020. The considerable majority of your articles were about visits to shows, dealers or manufacturers, and to some audiophile's homes. You have written a handful (1 ?) of actual product reviews - pls correct if I mis-counted. Of that product review it is unclear if you used the product for some period of time in your own system since your system is never described nor how the product fitted in to it. You told us in 2022 that your Pendragon speakers were in storage for 5+ years and that you did not have a working stereo in your house in Beverly Hills while it was remodeled.
So, wrt being intellectually honest (your topic), since you haven't published at M&S in several years, do you believe it is such to present yourself as a reviewer?
And good luck selling Clarisys!
And just what does this barely disguised Diatribe of Resentment , even remotely , have any relevance to the subject OP ?
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LOL! More kevlar for the flak jacket! Had to figure there would be the inevitable incomings.
Probably curled up in a ball in the corner for an hour or two before publishing.
Probably curled up in a ball in the corner for an hour or two before publishing.
Thank you very much, Greg!
As a former Apogee owner, I'd be curious to know what you think of Clarisys.
Your response is appreciated at the same face value I took your responses to question of resuming active production visible content on M&S, in your system thread.
Now that all is resolved I hope we'll soon become acquainted the finished state of said room. It must've been very exciting to uncrate two new sets of speakers within just over the span of a single year following a lengthy hiatus. You and Tinka will no doubt enjoy sharing your home with the stream of visitors that appears likely to increase it's visibility.
To be sure you are locked into analog' halcyon days closer to the 1900's than a quarter way through this century. Ron lives somewhere exciting technology and large city activities occur daily.
I question your methodology for establishing worth of new and/or exciting developments to a considerably greater degree than attempting to mitigate a room issue with modern digital solutions.
I wish both sides luck in their endeavors.
To be sure you are locked into analog' halcyon days closer to the 1900's than a quarter way through this century. Ron lives somewhere exciting technology and large city activities occur daily.
I question your methodology for establishing worth of new and/or exciting developments to a considerably greater degree than attempting to mitigate a room issue with modern digital solutions.
I wish both sides luck in their endeavors.
Rando, I am not sure I understand your post.
At one time Ron had told me that he was considering hiring Jim Smith to set up his speakers. I thought I would share some of my experience with Jim Smith when he was at my house doing the same. Perhaps know that Ron is a dealer and is offering advice to future clients, that plan has changed.
Yes, changing the listening seat location based on measurements below 300 Hz for smoothest bass response as Jim Smith does is a different approach to the problem than is electronic bass node mitigation. I do not think there’s actually much luck involved in either endeavor.
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Fair enough. I think my last real review was the Grado Epoch 3.
I really miss Matej. The last time I saw him in person with in Munich in 2017. He is amazingly delightful.
Matej graciously keeps my Senior Contributing Reviewer title on his masthead, as I intend to return to comparative component reviewing once my Pendragon system is all squared away.
Thank you very much, Tim!
Different strategies to mitigate room modes are not mutually exclusive. We (I alone, and then J.R. and I together) moved the woofer towers inside of the panels to mitigate some of the amplitude of the room modes. We moved the listening chair around for the same reason.
When tower and listening chair positioning improvements were exhausted the electronic bass absorbers provided measurable additional room boom mitigation.
Hi Ron,
Do you think intellectual honesty is maintained when a visitor writes on a forum a “polite report“ of someone’s system and then later notifies the host that he really doesn’t like the system but was simply being “polite“?
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