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I see people spending a lot of money on these fashion items, whereas they could go to PC world and buy a nice amp (with streaming build in) and a pair of decent speakers for the same price.
You really have to make your own speakers to get decent midrange and bass response you are yearning I would imagine.
I disagree with you there Chilli. Whilst I always aspired to be an audiophile, I never had the cash or conviction to make the grade and it just wasn't in my blood (Couldn't just sit down and listen and relax long enough to make it worthwhile and had to pick up the guitar and start playing along to everything including the radio, can't sit and watch football for the same reason, as I start kicking my legs and running about, it generally pisses everyone else off, so I avoid it).
So MOR is about about my level.
So I've never really owned any monitors at home myself, but the Kef's compared to the Missions was like chalk and cheese. I was like...So you have to be this accurate when you cut a track and lay down a guitar line? The detail and space they revealed was amazing. But the Missions were kind of a more rounded and pleasurable listening experience on their own.
Although that as from an Arcam Delta 290.
The first few Van Halen albums sound great through the Kef's but the production of 1984 sounds completely shit, disjointed and dry through them. Nothing kind of ties in and there are big gaps in the production frequencies, it is almost as if the band are each playing on their own to their own track and then it's homogenized at the last minute. Where as on the Missions this album would sound fairly well rounded and produced and listenable.
That is why I am MOR, because some of the best music just was craply produced, so extra expenditure will actually be detrimental to the listening experience.
I would like speakers that could deliver the raw power of Eddie Ojeda's or Jay Jay French's Marshalls turned to the max in the barn.
So it is all relative and depends on what your ears are craving really.
I think my home build kit 1970's Wharfedale 2' x 4' floorstanders sound better than the Bose speakers.
You can't create a man cave house with a wife, so you may as well bring her round to the veneered aesthetics of floorstanders or give up.
This is where mid range Hi-Fi generally sounds better as they have to make it sound nice to make up for any budgetary short comings. But there is a lot a smoke and mirrors at the high end. The really expensive amps often have the simpelist of circuits with low component count (yes they are of high quality) so in theory should not cost the 1000s they do.
I have two setups at home, Living room with AV amp, record deck (LP12) and some Tannoy floor standers. It can make almost any track sound good/nice but maybe does not reveal all of the detail. Works well with CD/MP3 as well.
The other is in my home office/studio with an AVID audio interface into some M-Audio BX8. This is a very revealing setup but did not cost the earth but does show up the short comings on a badly mastered track.
A HI-FI nut friend of mine took a listen (he has a system worth about 10k) without me telling him the cost and thought I must have spent a couple of grand at least. He was very impressed.
True.
Typically internet speaker review these days. The track is 'Bass I love you' by Bassotronics. The track features on all internet warrior speaker reviews these days as a must.
Of course, it is obvious to the discerning modern audiophile, that playing the track 'Bass I love You' presents the most challenging of tests that literally can be presented to speakers in terms of complex studio mastery and complex orchestra reproduction. You can here that the speakers really let's the natural resonance and timbre of the instruments breathe in this highest fidelity of high fidelity tracks.
An excellent review and demonstration of what these speakers are truly capable of.
Obviously heard through a secondary source of laptop speakers and being limited by YouTube in it's bandwidth all adds up to an even more credible and refined review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0tkIQwkeHI
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself