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stargazerct said:

Gee, little Mikey Campbell once again throwing only Apple under the bus with his defamatory headline. Are you desperate for a some clicks Mikey? Numbers down this month? Cheap, biased, and just wreaking of an obvious agenda.

cnocbui said:

PhailedAgain said:

Since when has Argentina (or Chile for that matter) been neighbouring Mexico ? 

Americans don't get out much.  Ok, that's a bit unfair - some do if there are people to kill or Oil to grab.

leavingthebigg said:

It is perplexing that AI chose not to fully credit Ming since every other Web site did. Claiming a source gelled with Ming is a cop out. If I am wrong about there not being another source, I will not hesitate to apologize for my disbelief. 

paulduv said:

techlover said:

No doubt this appears nice, but for $2000 for this seems overpriced compared to what $2000 can buy in A/V equipment these days.

Very true! Companies and products like this get by (and thrive) on the fact that people don't normally come across true mid to high-end audio. The offerings of any reasonably "sound" audio company at that price range would not just be better than this speaker, they would be in another league altogether. A comparison with say, these:



would make the difference laugh-out-loud apparent. 

I actually think it's a shame that Apple aligns itself with companies that have the trappings of true audio quality — but are more about style. Sadly, this is such a case.

I'm not saying this company is a charlatan. Perhaps $2000 is the true cost of this thing. If that's the case, it's an engineering failure. 

There is a path to beautiful, and unceasingly astonish sound. Audio equipment such as the Devialet Phantoms is not that path! 

Appleinsider, you are obviously paying attention to good sound. This is my urging, which would be lost on some: get thee to a true audio shop with a good listening room!

Hearing good speakers in the $4000 price range (for a pair) will be not just a somewhat better sound. It will not be subtle. The Devialet speakers will quite suddenly resolve themselves into a postcard of the Grand Canyon, and the ho-hum boxes with front-facing drivers will sound like the actual subject of that bit of cardboard. Surely I exaggerate? My man, I do not!

We love to poke fun at audiophile malarkey. As we should! Be that as it may, there is a level of hi-fi that most don't experience, because they don't know what the trip is — which they would be very pleased to have made.

Lest you think I would feel triumphant in my sound system with just such a set of $4000 speakers, which I foolishly bought when I was young and without obligations:

The sound achieved by true (and very expensive) hi-fi is just such a "real-thing" jump again. When hearing these, powered by ultra high-end amps... 

http://www.bowers-wilkins.net/Speakers/Home_Audio/800_Series_Diamond

...I actually involuntarily vocalized "oh". This seemed just not possible. Hearing the first sounds of In Between Days (Shiver Mix) by The Cure, the effect was not just a clear stereo picture, and all that good stuff. I felt surround by instruments that, if I didn't know better, I would swear were being played in the room around me. The bass sounds at 2:10 felt like physical waves, and the synthesized voice sounded like it was... what... like that effect of headphones, where sounds feel like they're generated inside your head... only this sound was truly existing in the room. Imagine that, with every tone being equally superlative. 

This was maybe 15 years ago, and I remember a like it was yesterday.

Surely I exaggerate? No, AppleInsider, I do not! Here's to air molecules...