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RE: Wow...
Posted by morricab on May 21, 2014 at 03:00:17:
Well, it had that effect on all my friends who heard it as well. One of my friend's wife said after an extended excerpt of Don Giovanni..."That makes me want to go to the Opera!" Piece after piece we sat there and bathed in the realism of the what we heard.
The illusion of SENSING the emergence of sound from a virtual instrument was truly there. The impact, the sustain, the decay and then the silence and the sensation that these virtual instruments would never, ever run over one another that they were there, in space and sounding damn near absolutely correct in tone, weight, dynamics whatever.
I think the fact that they were basically generating their own power helped remove a lot of electronic grunge that afflicts a lot of rooms at the show.
I had this experience once in 2009 at the show when I was in the KR Audio/Cessaro room (or maybe it was 2008...no matter). The sound was OK but a bit flat and a bit harsh. I was in a discussion with a guy and then around quarter after 6 PM (the show officially shut down at 6PM) the sound got suddenly amazing! I stopped the conversation and sat amazed at the improvement. What changed? Most rooms had shut off their systems by that time and I suspect the power got a lot cleaner and so did hte sound...harshness gone and soundstage developed.
Still, nothing I have heard before...except a lot of live concerts, can prepare you for what the LV+Kondo devlivered. What is disconcerting is the realism when there is nothing visual...that is what amazes.