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In Reply to: RE: I don't think we really see things so differently posted by 4everyoung on January 20, 2016 at 08:26:22
Just curious.
Including CES and all other audio shows, back when high-end audio was in the Sahara Bi-Level, Shahinian Diapasons were both holographic and impactful (it's usually one or the other).
ESP Concert Grands on at least three occasions were startlingly real. Elliott Kallen brought a ref CDR of his free-jazz group, and it was a real body-hair-raising experience.
The biggest MBLs in NYC, circa 2008? On one of my own pipe-organ recordings. Remarkable. JA was there.
Medium-sized TAD speakers playing Eric Whitacre's "When David Heard."
In answer to your last question, I look at it as, the room sure can hurt you but the best it can do is not to hurt you. I don't don't think that hotel rooms are likely to help.
Whereas here is a photo of Arturo Delmoni in a room that seemed to help--the formal dining room of a mansion in Newport RI. 15-foot ceilings, the room was 33 feet wide and 66 feet long. The Aerial 20Ts were playing a Music Minus One organ track and Arturo Delmoni was playing the Chaconne attributed to Vitali live. Ballsiest performance I have ever witnessed. JA, ST, MF, AD, and KR were there.
Behind Delmoni is a Plinius SA-250 that was getting a real workout. Stereovox cables. 24/96 original recording.
ATB,
JM
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The Avalon Eidolon, of course. An incredibly engaging system. That's what does it for me.
I'm hoping to hit a few more shows this year with perhaps a different perspective rather than just a laundry list of gear. We'll have to see. The old guard never welcomes change.
Sue
One of my favorite 'best sounding rooms' at a CES?Who'd o' thunk it?
Acoustic Sounds had a demo room at CES in about 2004? spinning one sided DEMO disks on a TNT HRX with amps I never cared much for, Halcro dm58 driving Avalon Eidolon Vision speakers.
Went to a lot of shows back in those days, about every CES from 2000 through 2007. Still going to RMAF every year.
Heard a lot of rooms.
Edits: 01/22/16
Yup, I went to a lot of shows back in those days as well. Even a few in Chicago when there was a summer CES. The Ayre system I was so fond of was back in 2003. That was a fun year as I had no writing assignment and decided to visit rooms that were off the beaten path so to speak. Met a lot of nice people who rarely, if ever, get any mention in the press. The photos are all buried in an old computer that I've not used in years. I should dig those up, especially the "hideous horns". Nice people, but the ugliest speakers I've even seen.Hope to see you at RMAF.
Edits: 01/21/16
Careful now, I'm a 'horn' guy so likely you're talking about friends of mine.
Actually, at last years RMAF my favorite room was Dave Slagle's bi-amped modified QUAD 57's.
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