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Hm, this is interesting.

I have my 2 shitty temporary monitors in Hamster position sublimated with a par of LF sections from MiniMe. They are not perfectly set up but quite listenable in it’s ad-hoc configuration driver by consumer PP SS amp. Here is what I found interesting. During the last 2 weeks I turned the big Macondo just 4.5 times.

First time it was 2 weeks back during broadcasting Bernard Haitink conducting LIVE Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. I turned Macondo an hour early and warmed it up. After the concert I shut the Melquiades down.

Second time it was during the same week during Osmo Vänskä conducting LIVE San Francisco Symphony with Emanuel Ax played Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22. I started to listen it with my MiniMeed Hamster, like what I heard from San Francisco and turned the Macondo’s help

The half time was during the MET LIVE broadcast of Dvorak’s Rusalka. I was driving, liked the performance in car radio, got home, turned the Macondo/Milqs up but the MET’s sound was so disgusting that I shut down the Milqs and went back to the Hamster listening

The third time was this week during the LIVE broadcast of Hans Vonk lead Rotterdam Philharmonic with Mikhail Pletnev crashing through the Grieg’s Piano Concerto. I was listing it on the Hamsters but in the middle of the concerto I realized that after the Grieg Rotterdam will play Holsts’ The Planets. I turned the Milq on and tune the cooling fans off – speeding the Milq got hotter. I was shooting to listen the Neptune movement with it corals decay to darkness with full-bloomed Macondo and the fully-heated Milqs. It was a perfect timing and it sounded spectacular.

The last time it was yesterday when I was trying to prove to myself one more time my feelings that Stravinsky was not good conductors. A friend of my argued that Stravinsky was and proposed me to listed his “…Du Soldat” from 1961 with Israel Baker. I was playing the Colombia 6272 LP and of come for that evaluation I need the full Macondo’s authority.

That was it. All the rest time I was listening my “bad” speakers and I did not have a temptation to change anything – it was enough for me.  I played a lot of music those days and there were some other very good programs, including some LIVE programs but the Hamsters were enough. This brings an interesting forecast how much Macondo I might be using after I finch the MiniMe project with F120A driver. If the MiniMe will be fully balanced and calibrated then will it leave me with one or two deserving sessions per week what I will be encouraged to turn my playback at it full force? Well, whatever it will be but it certainly permit me to use those “hard to get” DHT tubes in less spearing way.

Anyhow, I am trying to evaluate what would be my listening pattern with main system and MiniMe after they will be fully running. I never had a sufficiently good “pilot system” and if you have an experience of prolong living with second playback then can you share what your listening hobbit are from the perspective of main vs. pilot playback?

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