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What weird or dumb beliefs did you have when you were new to Audio?

Romeo Wolf

Romeo Wolf

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We all had our guesswork mistakes and beliefs that, when we think of it now, just sounds dumb. Especially me.

I used to believe that Compression drivers were for low frequency extension. But really, a compression driver is just a P.A./Pro Audio Tweeter. I also used to assume that the drivers in my tiny Bēm Mojo II's were Passive Radiators, until I learned that they were really just 1" full-range drivers in a closed, hard plastic cube. There weren't any passive Radiators.

What mistaken assumptions and beliefs did you guys have in Audio that you now consider to be False?
 
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I used to Believe that "Less Efficient" loudspeakers were inferior to one's that are more Efficient like my Cerwin Vega D9's that are rated @ 101 DB @1 meter away with 1 watt....
And whilst I love my Cerwin Vega speakers...
I absolutely Adore and Love my OHM Acoustics More.....yet they are far less Efficient @ around 89 DB rated @ 1 watt ....on
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Maybe not weird or dumb but..

In the 1970's me and my friends would attend a big audio show at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. We were all young, had technical experience and good ears. All of us judged some Cervin Vega speakers as best in show. I still remember the demo, it sounded WAY better than any other speakers we heard and we all picked them.

I'm not impressed with most vintage CV I hear now and I wonder why they sounded so good on that short demo.

Perhaps we WERE dumb and fell for the 'boom and sizzle'. Young ears need to develop a sophistication or maybe tastes just change. Now my favorite speakers are mellow, flat Harbeth Super HL5

I do swap in the Yamaha NS1000M for some excitement now and then.
 
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Bought my first stereo in 1985 (most of my money went into CD playback) .. I actually believed the audio press at the time :blah: .. that as soon as enough CD pressing plants were built .. the prices per CD were going to come down. :rolleyes:

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Before I got into audio I used to believe that high technology = high sound quality. From what Stereo Review magazine in the 1980s was telling me a fully solid state Sony stereo receiver and CD player for $200 would sound better than a turntable and ridiculously expensive 1950s vacuum tube preamp and amp.

I couldn't have been more wrong.
 
My grandma gave me her old Bose wave radio when she got a new one. One day I tried hooking up a pair of external speakers to the RCA outputs, but I couldn't figure out why they were so quiet even when I turned the volume way up. Took me a while to learn about line level and speaker level output.
 
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the more speakers, connected at once, the better it was
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In my youth with my crap gear I absolutely believed this was true. Speaker stacking a bunch of crap speakers did seem to make them better back then. I'm not saying it's a sound I would go for now, but as a 15 year old I loved the wall of mismatched speaker sound and don't think it was a dumb belief at all.

I'm just amazed I didn't blow up more amps because I had no idea about Ohm loads and would plug sometimes 5 or 6 sets of speakers into a single amp.
 
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