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Coincident Speaker Technology Troubador loudspeaker Review context

Sidebar 1: Review context

The speakers were reviewed in my relatively small living room: 17" by 10" by 8" high in the primary dimensions, although it's part of an "open plan" living room/dining room/kitchen layout. I placed them along the long wall, which means I listened more or less near-field. Both pairs benefited greatly from rigid, nonresonant stands—I used a pair of Cliff Stone's 24" Foundation stands, which are filled with aggregate and were spiked through the carpet to the concrete subfloor. Although the Coincident loudspeakers are quite efficient and can be driven by modestly powered amplifiers, I used the Pass Aleph 0 monoblocks for their wonderful transparency and unwavering image stability. The preamp used was Lamm's Model L1. At the front end were Theta's Data Basic II/DS Pre Basic III and the Well Tempered Reference/SHO/Gold Aero dB45 combos.

All of the components were plugged into two API Power Wedge 112s. Interconnect was Kimber KCAG, speaker cable was Alón Black Orpheus—an extremely interesting design that has little bulk, even in bi- and tri-wired runs. The speakers were thoroughly run-in before audition with burn-in tones, my Rykodisc A Day on Cape Cod: Babbling Brook, and abundant quantities of music. Only one pair of speakers was in the listening room during the auditions.—Wes Phillips

COMMENTS
eugovector's picture
Submitted by eugovector on November 26, 2012 - 5:20pm

What's going on here?

mrplankton2u's picture
Submitted by mrplankton2u on November 27, 2012 - 5:14pm

It's the token bad review that Stereophile feels it has to throw out to remind readers that on exceedingly rare occasions, it actually does take a break from the non stop advertising/promotional campaigns which help keep the lights on and pay for airfares for "journalists" to travel from show to show in which they endlessly kibitz with other "industry" figures in dining rooms and bars across the United States....lol!

[Possibly actionable defamation deleted by JA]

Now if only we could get these "journalists" to stop giving "very highly recommended" review summaries for products like a $6000 tube amp whose volume control gets too hot to touch... (eyeroll)

[More defamatory content deleted. If you continue to post defamatory and personal comments, we will have no option but to ban you from this site, mrplankton2u.-JA]

mrplankton2u's picture
Submitted by mrplankton2u on November 27, 2012 - 9:51pm

I don't think you have a clue what the term "defamatory" actually means so I've cited a definition below:

 

"Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, traducement, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation a negative or inferior image. This can be also any disparaging statement made by one person about another, which is communicated or published, whether true or false, depending on legal state. In Common Law it is usually a requirement that this claim be false and that the publication is communicated to someone other than the person defamed (theclaimant).[1]"

 

Note, Mr. Atkinson, that under "common law", the requirement for defamation is that published claims are false. [Edited by John Atkinson]

GeorgeHolland's picture
Submitted by GeorgeHolland on November 28, 2012 - 6:40am

It is pretty obvious that Mr Blume is clueless when it comes to speaker design. Even the "novices" on real audio forums know about the importance of acoustic phase.

junker's picture
Submitted by junker on November 27, 2012 - 9:39am

Thanks for the honest review.

JohnnyR's picture
Submitted by JohnnyR on November 27, 2012 - 8:29pm

Well maybe more of a "Don't tell us the truth or you will be banned"attitude. When logic fails, just delete posts and call it "defaming". Lame.

tmsorosk's picture
Submitted by tmsorosk on November 28, 2012 - 5:24am

You mean the truth as you see it JohnnyR ?

After reading many of your posts I would say there anything but true.

I'm usually agaist banning anyone, but I'll make an exception in your case. You contribute nothing to this great site and depict yourself as an unhappy and uneducated troll.   BEAT  IT.

JohnnyR's picture
Submitted by JohnnyR on November 29, 2012 - 6:09am

......that MrPlankton2U spelled out what was going on and JA deleted it because? I'm glad you have no say so as to who should be banned. By the way it's "they're" NOT "there". Please be more civil in the future and perhaps you won't be making errors.

 Mr Blume obviously didn't bother to measure his finished speaker. I'm betting he used his "golden ears" to judge them. Ahhhhh the folly of relying upon "what he heard".

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