If I had not had the opportunity to use these footers, especially the production versions, I would not believe what I have written here. In fact before getting them to review, I had trouble believing what Steve was saying about them, because, after all, they are just footers and what he was saying was too good to be true, and thus likely not true. However, the daily change in sound, both negative in the beginning and positive after several days clearly showed that something different is going on with these footers, than any other footers I had auditioned. I then did something that Marty has taught me over the years--Wait and just listen and be open minded. You will have no trouble knowing when the cohesiveness hits because it will no longer sound like a system, but rather life. The more lifelike it becomes, the more believable it becomes and the more it talks to you and says "come on sit down and listen to something familiar and hear what it sounded like when it was recorded, not just how it is reproduced, as we have settled for for years.
I now know that an unusual sound I heard at Marty's after his footers were in for over a week was not so much from his typical system tweaks, but rather an new quality of believability that emerged at my house after 6-7 days. I heard it with both V1 and V2 footers, although must quicker with V2 and much more cohesive.
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