Media shortchanges again

Loudspeakers
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only 3 US passive loudspeaker makers could be found, and then calls them the best

what about Wilson?

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I donā€™t think the writer looked vary hard. Iā€™ll bet there are at least a dozen and probably more if you count all of the small local builders that donā€™t advertise

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No Magico either. :thinking:

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This guy lost me at the first sentence:

ā€œIn the Bluetooth age, passive loudspeakers no longer represent the future of home audio.ā€

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PS Audio, Tekton, Owen Mills, Martin Logan, Acoustic Zen, Classic Audio, Devore, Eggleston, Macintosh, Genesis, Klipsch, Legacy, Ohm, Rockport, Soundlab, Vandersteen, YG.

And probably a dozen more.

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In effect, article saying these speakers are not among the best made in USA, neither are Wilson and Magico

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I read the article as a shallow sampling of a few domestic brands, nothing more.

Maybe I missed it but I donā€™t recall reading a claim that the covered brands were the only manufacturers of ā€œpassiveā€ loudspeakers in the US.

:man_shrugging:

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You did not miss anything. It is not there

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True, the article only referred to the best

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When I click on the link and go to the article, the actual Headline is:

3 American Hi-Fi Companies Keeping the Tradition of Passive Loudspeakers Alive

I did not note anything in the article about the covered speakers declaring any of them as being the best.

FYI.

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True again, it is the marketing of the article as indicated in its link

Perhaps click bait

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last line of the article is ā€˜pricelessā€™ā€¦

Give them enough space and drive them with quality amplification and you may not understand how a pair of floor-standing loudspeakers can disappear in a room like a pair of the worldā€™s best bookshelf loudspeakers.

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from Google News web page todayā€¦got me to click, and noticed the same headline is used in the page browser tab

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Wow. That IS priceless, now that you call it out.

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I saw that also (in the browser tab). Canā€™t say I remember ever noticing that kind of disconnect before.

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Please forgive me, this thread should be under Sick Humor

this article is simply an example of a litany of ultra superficial articles at the Gear Patrol web site, a condescending view of its audienceā€¦click bait for advertisers

makes one wonder, however, how much seemingly more serious sources are themselves useless/unreliable

Update:

and then there is the litigious guiding hand ā€˜synergisingā€™ with financial thumbs on the scaleā€¦