CAS Day 2 - M-dB - General Asylum

CAS Day 2

Posted by M-dB (A) on August 16, 2014 at 17:33:18

I'd like to thank all the participants for lugging all that stuff and becoming the new brick and mortar on wheels. It always impresses me, I saw a picture of that piece but the scale and detail in person can be surprising. Constellation's new integrated quickly comes to mind

It's also impressive how these people can ring decent sound out of some absurd spaces. The most glaring was Ultimate Audio's room showing the stunning Sound Lab Majestics. Not just a two dimension square room but a three dimension cube. And still they managed to wow the crowds.

There were plenty of very interesting speaker and amplification combinations that, IMO, were stymied by electronic pad wielding digitights controlling their sources with ultimate mobility. I caught myself relaxing in the rooms spinning LPs and working my way through the rest and I wasn't alone.

For me the system that spoke to me was by a manufacture who wasn't really pulling out any stops. I left room 338 wondering why they even made the effort to show but truly thankful they did. Kent English and two others hauled out of the Pass Labs warehouse in Auburn a fresh looking Technics SP10 turntable, a air of their class A 50 watt .8s, and a pair of Kent built Jensen Imperial cabinets loaded with a single Tannoy Gold driver. No exotic cables, no power conditioning, tweakless. At one point this mid 50s design was belting out some serious electronica with aplomb as well as some delicate orchestral work with subtle Tympani that simply sounded correct. This could very well be the speaker for life. You be the judge.

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