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messages. I have a hard time figuring out exactly what these
messages are - but I think that's just me. Here, all I can think
is that the replacing of the stars of the stars and stripes with a
tube symbol means that we should cerate a 52nd state - called
'Tube' - and people there pay taxes on solid-state gear and get
tax breaks for owning tube gear. Or not. As far as sound, I've
never been able to tell what the Manley sound was trying to do.
Perhaps it is just going for Workhorse - which means it just gets
the job done without being too offensive. At that it mostly
succeeds, though perhaps a little too laid back for my taste [and
we like the soundstage behind the speakers about 75% of the
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The little Joseph Audio canister there actually goes round and
round. Eye-catching, and not all that annoying, surprisingly.
There are so few animated things at a high-end audio show - it is
kind of a relief to get a reminder that reality is just an
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can almost figure it out... shhhh!... almost have it..... Oh! The
message is: Audio can be fun! Easy to forget that, sometimes. |
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manufactured? There logo is on this one, anyway. Maybe they just
stick it on before including it in with their amps when they ship
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[sorry, CAP. I don't do sports. That's Neli. She likes some of
them organized things where lots of millionaires run around on a
field]. It is a way to keep your cap warm between games AND its an
amplifier too. No? We do know that lots of amps do do double duty
as cat warmers. |
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works! I mean, the mid to upper midrange was really well done.
There was a little integration anomalies with the bass - but at
the right price point, these would be interesting. Now, every time
I hazard a guess at what a speaker should sell for, I get into
trouble [I know, its not as if I appear to care about getting into
trouble - but I do try to stick to describing sound, and stay away
from setting pricing policy for manufacturers (first thing I'd do?
Cut every price in half. Oh. Wait. The U.S. govt just did that, at
least for people outside the U.S. buying U.S. equipment. But I'm
INSIDE the U.S.! Hello! Somebody up there in D.C. got it
completely backwards! Doh!)]. |
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As you can tell from the photos, these are short speakers. And
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The Mastersound equipment was sounding good in this room. |
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Las Vegas has to glow. Its the law. |
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Well, as you saw, there was a lot of Mastersound gear on static
display. Static display means it is not connected to a system. But
some of it may be turned on anyway. Not something WE would do -
but we are more timid than the average bear when it comes to our
equipment. Perhaps this comes from working so many decades with
logical instead of physical circuits. If you short out a logical
circuit, you just delete the trace and route a new one. FedEx does
not earn a dime. The point being that in the real world there is
no 'undo'. No 'do-overs'. |
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