. . . We live in an entertainment economy, even the US presidential campaign has taken that flavor with "Fukcing Wacko" Don vs. "Crooked, sick" Hillary.
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Coming to magico reviews, Wolf has selected guys to review his speakers who have bought in hook, line, and sinker and are so inspired by the product they are blinded to shortcomings of the speaker. They live and breathe magico. They think the speakers are perfect, and everything else sucks. . . .
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His strengths and weight - that have been used to bash his competitors have turned into weaknesses. His hand - picked reviewers are now a liability. Audio fans who like musicality could care less what Mr. Analytic Sound himself, Robert "worthless to the audio fan" Harley or "You don't got magico and soulution , so your system sucks" Fritz, or "Sterile" Jon valin , when misses his electro shock therapy treatments and starts recommending "transparency to source " gear in a magazine branded as the absolute sound…
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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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