Sasha, I fully appreciate that you are what we recall a "technically- motivated buyer" in my world so I imagine that this all seems frustratingly vague and lacking in terms of comparative specification between products, etc. But having had technicality nearly ruin my love of music at one point in my life, I consciously try to avoid becoming too involved in that aspect of this. So no, I do not take this as seriously as some, perhaps including yourself. That being said, neither of our approaches to this are wrong, only different. Enjoy.
Not so, I did not see it like that, your description provided good comparative info because I am familiar will all PMC speakers you described with exception of fact series, and also had exposure to Spendor, Vienna Acoustics and Audio Physic. The only thing that I did not fully get was that you placed Audio Physic into the same “uninvolving” category together with Vienna Acoustics, my impression of Audio Physic was more positive, I would venture to say in some ways more similar to PMC than not.
I do not get impression that your and my ultimate objectives are any different, it is just the approach we take to achieve desired results that is fundamentally different. I like to apply analytical skills and try to make correlation between what I hear and design choices, measurements, the rational part of it if you will.
I find that it allows me to weed out technologies and components that would most likely not contribute to the achievement of my objectives, so I do not have to waste time and money on trying those. Technicalities are simply the means.
Throughout the years in this hobby I went from SS to tubes and back to SS, from playing with all kind of analog and digital interconnects, power cords, insulation techniques, to finally dismissing all of them as wrong approach and futile exercise, and so on, I have “smartened up” over the years and that works much better. The conflict arises usually when those with no experience and/or knowledge become overly enthusiastic in their attempts to impose their views on others, become patronizing and insulting, and try to convince me that all that was experienced, heard, learned, is invalid, and do so constantly, regardless of the subject at hand, derailing any attempts to have meaningful exchange of information. That is when my “brusque approach” surfaces. With some people it is just not possible to establish communication, it is evident on these forums, some just blow everything out of proportions and look for a way to expand confrontation. This entire post may seem confrontational to some, but there is no such intent, I am simply expressing my views, and reason for it is that you do not appear to be needlessly confrontational and are receptive to different views.
