I've got my telly playing through £300 of Denon CD player with bookshelf speakers - and it's cinema quality in comparison. I wonder if TV editors do testing on multiple devices, like web designers do? The difference between the nice speakers they were edited on - and the horrible ones they were broadcast to. I wondered at the time if that was why the BBC were having such trouble with shows like Jamaica Inn - where they had to re-edit them because people were complaining that they couldn't hear the dialogue. In the sense that you actually can't hear what people are saying if there's other loud stuff on the soundtrack, because the speakers are so bass and treble heavy and knacker the mid-tones. It's not like I have high expectations - but given how amazed I was at my new Huawei Honor 20's speaker - which is much much tinier that the space they've got to play with - they've no excuse not to at least compete with phones and tablets. I'm glad to see the TV manufacturers catching up. What I have now does a bloody good job, but I'd sell my grandmother's ashes to get a matched pair of electrostatic speakers! (or headphones, if they're anywhere near as good as the speakers.) Oh, and a trapdoor with lever - gotta have some quick way to dispatch anyone who would dare to encroach on my listening space! ![]() A single seat in the middle, the speakers placed at the optimum position for that seat, and nothing but the amp and source. ![]() When I do, I think the lounge will be cleared of all other obstructions. So far I've not been able to find any electrostatic speakers I can even begin to dream of affording. It was one of the most beautiful pieces I'd ever heard, and I say this as a hard-core metaller who'd been fortunate to have met many of my favourite artists. ![]() My boss suggested a demonstration, and the guy obliged with some utterly awful shite I'd heard far far far to many times from my parents crapped old record player (one of the ones where the mono speaker is part of the lid, and the records weren't exactly cared for either). I asked the owner what it was and he told me it was electro static speakers. One day when I was in my very late teens I was on a house call for my firm, and the house had a couple of 'things' that looked like the backs of a 70's era 3-seater couch - something like the one pictured at but without the seat, arm rests etc - basically just the back on the stands, but at about that height. I just cannot put it into words how utterly terrible it sounded. Throughout my youth I hated any form of orchestral music. I always fancied a pair of Technics SB-10000 but bought a car instead. Nice - had to search that product code, thought for a mo they were Quad electrostatics. It's only if you don't learn from them that you're crossing the line into really stupid.) ![]() (* Actually, you probably were a bit daft, but we all do daft things now and again. Even if you weren't a bit daft to buy in to Sonos' tat in the first place (*) you'd certainly be out of your mind to stick with it now. I know guys who have amps and speakers that are as far beyond mine as mine is beyond the Sonos stuff.Īlso, none of these items are suddenly going to stop working because some corporate money-grubber decides that he doesn't want to support them any more. Meanwhile, for general listening, the nearly 20-year-old Missions connected to my nearly 40 year-old hi-fi easily show up anything Sonos produces as sonic garbage.Įven allowing or inflation, none of these speakers cost as much as one of Sonos' lower-priced offerings, much less their more pricey warble-boxes. My old Wharfedale Diamond actives are pretty comprehensively low-end and poor sounding (as near-field monitors for recording purposes go) but leave anything Sonos produces lying dead in the dust when it comes to sound quality. I've got a cheap pair of Bluetooth bookshelf speakers that don't sound great, but they still sound better than just about any bit of Sonos kit I've ever heard. Godawful, overpriced, under-performing speakers with sound quality that is barely acceptable if your target audience is a bunch of very, very drunk people at a party, but that's about it.
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