The Stereomojo Great Small Speaker Shootout 2007

 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1409
Registered: Oct-04
http://www.stereomojo.com/Small%20Speaker%20Shootout%202007/SmallSpeakerShootout 2007Part1.htm

I like this sort of thing, but it was a kind of avantgard group, and a few too many kits for my taste.

And the winner is...
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1412
Registered: Oct-04
Bump, did anybody peruse through this?
 

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Username: Nickelbut10

Post Number: 628
Registered: Jun-07
Cool stuff Chris.
 

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Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 358
Registered: Feb-07
"The reference components were pretty amazing. The amplifiers were custom built, very limited production, tube monoblock amps that weighed 275 pounds each."

Holy cr@ap!
 

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Username: Frank_abela

Berkshire UK

Post Number: 2457
Registered: Sep-04
Blimey,

I only know one of those speakers!

Regards,
Frank.
 

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Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 359
Registered: Feb-07
I thought it was just me... pretty esoteric selection of speakers.
 

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Username: Frank_abela

Berkshire UK

Post Number: 2459
Registered: Sep-04
Indeed - no Dynaudio, Totem, Avi, B&W, PMC, ATC, ProAc...

Thoroughly representative then.

Regards,
Frank.
 

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Username: Artk

Albany, Oregon USA

Post Number: 5483
Registered: Feb-05
Meaningless I'm afraid. For the reasons stated above and many more. Entertaining though I suppose.
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1413
Registered: Oct-04
I wish we could arrange a little get-together of our own someday.
 

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Username: Nuck

Post Number: 8973
Registered: Dec-04
I wonder how the test would go with electrics which are a bit more...representative of availability, shall we say?
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1414
Registered: Oct-04
As opposed to custom tube mono-blocks?

The sweet-spot in the market, IMHO is the sub-$500, or even the sub-$300 category.
 

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Username: Nuck

Post Number: 8977
Registered: Dec-04
Cripes, if CM arranges the get-together, we will have a campfire and tents in the parking lot of a Super8.
Or all sleep in his restaurant.

Jab.Jab.
 

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Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 360
Registered: Feb-07
I nominate David McCoy to host the get-together.

Based on this thread:

https://www.ecoustics.com/electronics/forum/home-audio/377431.html

Can I get an amen?
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1415
Registered: Oct-04
That would be an option if this restaurant were ever to open.

Personal Training is looking better & better.

We don't have a Super-8 in Brooklyn last I checked.

It would be worth it just to try and get Jan, Wiley & Peter in the same room. I would travel up to the Canadian nether-lands to see that.

Perhaps Eddie would leave up his Sherpa job for just such a shin-dig.
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1416
Registered: Oct-04
A-MEN!
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1417
Registered: Oct-04
Or this guy's house http://www.soundsolutionsaudio.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10834 (Thanks Jan)
 

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Username: Dmitchell

Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Post Number: 361
Registered: Feb-07
I forgot about that guy.

That dude is an audio super-freak.
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1418
Registered: Oct-04
Obviously a wifeless audio super-freak.
 

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Username: Nuck

Post Number: 8979
Registered: Dec-04
Oh shite, at McCoy's place for certain.
Tents on the lawn in Sunny CA.
Crash his pad for a weekend, introduce him to the local senoritas.
And crank the hell oughtta his house!
 

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Username: Artk

Albany, Oregon USA

Post Number: 5484
Registered: Feb-05
"I wish we could arrange a little get-together of our own someday."

That's actually happening with some friends on another forum. I think the problem with ecoustics is distance and disparity. There is a wide distance between many of the old timers here and a wide disparity in income and mobility. The other forum I'm on most folks are in the same income bracket I'm in and many of them live nearby (it's a bigger forum with many more members). I've been a member there as long as here but have less than 10% of the posts there that I have here...wish some of us lived nearby....

I know of at least one Northwesterner, I didn't forget you David!
 

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Username: Nuck

Post Number: 8980
Registered: Dec-04
Karma has quite a fest..

I may just have to hoist a Scotch up tonight rather than expose myself as a 4'8" female impersonator. Black. In a Kilt.

Yeah, take a picture of that.
 

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Username: Artk

Albany, Oregon USA

Post Number: 5485
Registered: Feb-05
They do, in Michigan...also have regionals including one here in the NW. Also members who live within close proximity tend to keep in touch. Nice sense of community.
 

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Username: Exerciseguy

Brooklyn, NY United States

Post Number: 1420
Registered: Oct-04
Wouldn't shock me.
 

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Username: Chicomoralessxm

Dutch islesCaribbean

Post Number: 189
Registered: Feb-07
Well i'd have to agree lots of these speakers in that shootout are not household names to me? Why tubes? Would have been nice to be a setup of equipment some on here actually own(excluding the junk i have lol)

Well when you guys finally decide on place or venue let me know i dont midn donating toward some after the testing booze whiskey cognac or rum?
 

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Username: Nuck

Post Number: 8998
Registered: Dec-04
Why tubes, Chico?
Why not?
As long as the electrics are used throughout the test, it's fair to all, like a golf tourney.

However, the esoteric kit used here might favour a strong midrange performing speaker, just like some courses are expected to reward a strong short game.
A speaker like the Rogers 3/5a shoulda been there, the 3/5se is a grand or so.
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