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In the Thread: Configuration from Italy: multisell++ and double model 19.

Post Subject: Music at Toni's place - work in progressPosted by twogoodears on: 1/8/2010

The whole room (L-shaped) is larger as you all noticed, but as Roman saw in my Blog , the listening space is smaller - i.e. about 6,5 x 4,5 meters with low 2,70 ceiling - and is a perennial work in progress... yes, the Stereo Lab 1000 hz is a true waste as a "raiser"... must agree;-)

Let me talk a little bit more about sound... I try to be not over wordy or to use hypes and the like... Toni's a friend I don't see very often, so the last time I heard his system he was still using 4 ways Onken W, 1803/2440 and TAD 2001 in a Le Dauphin, small Iwata-like horn and 2405 tweeter...

The sound was better than average, but quite shouting and definitely P.A....

My friend is mostly listening to big orchestral music of any vintage and to french light music (J. Greco, C. Aznavour and other obscure female singers I'm not aware of, most of the times recorded live à l'Olimpia)

No jazz - he hates it, nor rock...

He seems to be very partial vs. Onken W low end - which he love a lot... I'd define him as a bass freak.

Strangely, what impressed me more than low end was the upper end, better said... a smooth and true-to-life "musicality" with a beautiful, unobstrusive bass, never booming... two discs of mine: a Britten solo cello (Rostropovich) was a little larger than due or one of my Ludwig Streicher's double-bass discs was a little booming and the system wasn't imaging or hinting to any deepness in stereo scene...

... but what this system does is sounding with a nice single speaker-like sense of cohesion and a dynamically rich listening... double basses in orchestra surprise with their strokes.

That's why I described my friend sound as "event brought in the room", which is a sort-of interpretation of reality, one of the (several) truth available and tailored to Toni's taste and ears...

He seems to well understand he's down-performing with the mighty 1803... he recently ordered a Goto SG-505 mid-low driver pair and he will cut it at 220 hz.

Believe me... this system - like my own - isn't perfect... but moving through beauty of music it sure is - i.e. the performance enter the room and the orchestra power is controlled... sure Toni settled the sense of shouting/P.A.-like sound reinforcement he listened to only a couple of years ago...

I suggested to my friend to move the mid-high and high and to toe in of some degrees the whole combo to hint to some pale imaging, but the sonic footprint is not changing... the 3,5 meters from listening sweet spot is - anyway - a great aural experience.

The merits? Goto's stuffs or Mundorf's caps x-over and a fine tuning still in progress... I don't know... nonetheless, the sound is VERY natural and pleasant, not rolled off or tilted to high...in a word: right... and pleasant, delicate, full of details and with performers of proper size.

I loved that listening...

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