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RE: Western Electric

Posted by morricab on May 21, 2014 at 14:59:40:
I think that the old Western electric speakers had their strengths but the limitations and colorations were also pretty obvious.

Now, I am hoping that you didn't really think your room this year at the show was better sounding than the LV room...sorry but it wasn't and it also fell below a number of other rooms with horns and tubes. I don't think your gear was responsible in this case though...it sounded more like a speaker/room issue to me.

I liked the Tannoy Westminsters with the Straussmann gear (crazy priced though for what it delivered). The Wolf and something or other was also nice. For me the 2nd best room was the big Blumenhofer speakers and Allnic electronics...that delivered big fairly realistic sound...not LV realistic but not bad either.

Interestingly, the LV room was one of the only rooms where the audience showed the respect one would expect at a real live opera or classical concert...only the forced demos were as quiet and LV had an open access unlike some pretentious others. Are you sure you didn't go in there when they were playing their small speakers?

I heard well recorded Opera in both the Silbatone/Westrex and LV/kondo rooms (opera in other rooms would likely have just been painful) and the only one that sounded like I hear when I go to the Zurich Opera house or the Royal Opera house in London was the LV/Kondo room. The only one that sounds like a real grand piano at close range was the LV/kondo.