Originally posted by AV-OCD
So having gone through that and feeling somewhat puzzled as I've read good things about Rockports which is why I decided to search them out, I looked on the web about the Aquila and see Robert Harley saying he was "completely blown away" by them and that the "midrange had a resolution, palpability, and immediacy that bordered on the spooky, and the treble was extraordinary quick and clean". This was in fact, quite the opposite of my own listening experience.
To be fair, the only other "review" (Harley's opinion was more of a CES impression) I could find on the Aquila was in the Stereo Times, in which the reviewer claimed, "In 35 years of pursuing audio Nirvana, the Rockport Aquila stands alone at as the single most musically and technically impressive audio component I've had the privilege to experience."
Which really re-affirms my belief that one has to listen for themselves, and that many of these "reviews" so full of hyperbole and unreal praise are nothing more than hot-air hype with which you should be very, very suspicious.
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