I agree with Peter A. But beyond caesar's post being merely an Introspection and Hyperbole Control violation it is filled with sarcasm. Caesar even managed to throw in a violation of the ban on political comments.
I admit to having been a bit disappointed that Robert Harley's almost unqualified review of the Q7 was undermined by his review of the Q7 II, which caused failings of the Q7 suddenly to become apparent. In his review of the Q7 II Robert suggests that the Q7, in retrospect and in comparison to the Q7 II, was a little bit bright and analytical sounding (I know that I am simplifying and summarizing but that was the gist of the revision to his view on the Q7). But I give credit to Robert for acknowledging his original view on the Q7, and correcting it.
Robert's extremely positive review of the MartinLogan Neolith makes crystal clear that he does not believe that Magico "speakers are perfect, and everything else sucks."
I, personally, cannot countenance Jonathan Valin's practice on long term equipment "loans" from manufacturers. But nowhere in Jonathan's review of the M Project does he state or imply that the M Projects "are perfect, and everything else sucks."
On the contrary, I thought that Jonathan, in that review, wrote a thoughtful and introspective survey of the ways in which he believed devotees of other speaker types (horns, electrostatics, darker/warmer sounding box speakers) would view the M Projects. Jonathan clearly appreciated the benefits of other speaker technologies and why their adherents like those other designs.
So I believe that certain statements in caesar's post are not only hyperbolic but are false.
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