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CES/T.H.E. Show (Expo)... Acapella Speakers

Posted by justacoder (S) on January 12, 2002 at 20:00:41

I will post my (very long) trip report detailing the Speaker Evaluation Expedition my wife and I took to Las Vegas in the near future... But here is an excerpt and I have a question: has anyone else heard these speakers? We kind of feel like we are the only ones who 'get' how great these speakers sound - especially since they are from Germany and we are not able to read the reviews as they are in German, Greek, etc. Thanks for any help/info you may provide.

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Acapella - Campanile. Audio Aero stereo and monoblock amps (Capitole Power Amp and Capitole Transtrac) and Capitole CD player. Nirvana cables. 'You are there!' sound. Our lives are now divided into pre-Acapella and post-Acapella. The first few seconds of hearing (some female vocalist on) them, not really paying much attention (except to their somewhat unique looks), it was like my brain did a double take - my ears told my brain that there was someone actually in the room singing. The soundstage is as much more present and solid than the pipedreams, as much so as the pipedreams are above ordinary (high quality) speakers. This extra-ordinary 'solidity' is present about, say, 30-60% of the time. The rest of the time the solidity is closer to what the pipedreams offer. (I am assuming that the speakers were largely responsible for this).

In addition to this is the dynamic capabilities of the speaker. We play the Frisell CD (Quartet, track 1) because we have seen him in concert a number of times, and most playback systems just fail to capture the dynamic envelope of even a single note. They *all* sound compressed - every other speaker we played this on (Exquisites, Pipedreams, ...), sounded compressed compared to (the albeit amplified) live Frisell music. This system (I cannot be sure which component or combination of components is responsible), was close enough to the real Dynamic that it would take more time than we had at the show to determine the differences.

We did not have time to do an extensive evaluation. But to some extent we do not have to. It was just so much better than anything else in the areas it excels in, and at least competent in the others, that we thought it was way and above the Best of the Show.

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