Maybe next time you'll get to review some big speakers...

Seriously, those were among the top two or three speakers I heard at CES last year, and may well have been the very best.

I didn't get to listen for very long, so it was enjoyable reading your impressions. My initial impression was similar to yours - there was something incredibly life-like in the presentation. I appreciate your writing about the particular significance of the first impression, as I hadn't thought of that. Very good observation.

Your review alerted me to an error arising during my own brief audition: I thought I heard high frequencies coming from a higher elevation because of the appearance of the speaker. But more than likely that was just my imagination. You lived with the speaker for a long time and wrote, "There is never a hint of discontinuity between drivers and the sense that the sound comes from a single source is easily believable with eyes shut." I believe you! I think my eyes and feeble brain tricked me.

I thoroughly enjoyed your smoothly flowing, entertaining, highly informative and educational writing style. Thanks for going to the effort to do such a fine job!

Duke

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