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In the Thread: A new CES 2010 loudspeaker?

Post Subject: Lamm / Wilson room a not-reviewPosted by Saturntube on: 1/13/2010

This was our big discussion, the big Lamm / Wilson room, the sound was perfect in a sense that was absolutely quiet everything where it should go, the tone of the instruments was perfect, the soundstage was perfect the instruments were a little bit too far apart like they were playing but did not know each other.... but it was boring. Not musical, not engaging, not lively. You didnt have the "be there" WOW quality that Ocean view had in spades.
They always played little jazz music or quartets at low volume, nothing really demanding of the system, we would have asked them to play some real music but that Michael Fremer guy was in that room all the time, and of course everyone else became invisible. We returned 3 times to the room.
The system did seem that it could take off nicely though, but you would still need to bring the musicians together.

The HR2 sound was all about music, and being there, and though it was loud you could whisper and be heard across the room. It had the same WOW factor your Macondo system has but it was much less refined in every sense, but very enjoyable. We were 3 old time friends and audiophiles with completely different systems that can never agree on anything, the 3 of us thought the HR2 were the best we heard.

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