Well, I just spent the morning reading all the posts ( except the ones that were moved, edited or whatever...).
What led me to this, is that a co-worker knows that I have an original pair of prototype 6B's that I am restoring, and he was very interested in buying. Then he read "the review"....and changed his mind. Now, obviously Bryston has come a long way since the days of the prototype 6B's, but the review scared him. That's how I got here.
After reading all the verbal jousting, the thing that strikes me, that everyone seems to forget, is that no two people hear the same thing, the same way. And even if they manage to hear it the same way, they might be listening for different things.
That's why we are all the same and all totally different at the same time.
I learned this lesson the hard way, as a start-up loudspeaker builder. My partner and I settled on a design, worked out the engineering, and a final sound, sent out prototypes ( at no charge ) for various higher end shoppes across Canada to review. The comments ranged from "lively, revealing little speaker" to "keep your home-built crap at home"......ouch.
Everyone hears differently. That's why , at one point years ago, there were 417 loudspeaker manufacturers in North America, each doing something different to achieve the same end....customer happiness.
That being said, there are two companies that I have always admired, Bryston and old Adcom. Why?...because, they both came up with a good design, that withstood the test of time until they figured out something truly better. With some companies, the latest amp might be the "Current Pump model 490" only because the models 1 through 489 all blew up when they were loaded with an impedance dip down to 5 ohms with a little phase angle thrown in for good measure.
Bryston doesn't go down that road.
Having owned a 3B for several years, and now the 6B's will be my new toys for a while, as well as OLD Adcom products, I like the music that comes out of both.
As for MF and his review..... Its his opinion, he is entitled to it.
Whether we choose to believe it or not, is our opinion, and we are entitled to that.
The bottom line is you gotta go and listen to form your own opinion, not just read the mag as my co-worker did, and I think that's the one thing that might be lost at some magazines and that has to be in large print at the end of every article:
"Now that you have read my opinion, on my equipment, in my room, heard through my ears, I suggest that you audition the reviewed equipment in your house, on your equipment, listened to with your ears, to see if you agree with me or not, because, in the end, the only person who listens to it, is you alone."
Opinions are like bellybuttons.....everybody has one.
Rob
