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In the Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions ....
Post Subject: Thanks, StitchPosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/21/2014
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 Stitch wrote:
Sound was really lifelike, true in tone, for 1000 visitors in a cinema with a 2W amplifier....of course it can't be compared in rooms for one owner with pinpoint imaging, but it was a good performance. A lot of listeners scratched their head and asked themselves, what happened in the last 80 years from reproduction.....
As you know I am not a blind admirer of  80 years old implementations. For sure there some great elements and aspect of sound from  80 years systems but they did not have the "nuance specificity" of contemporary installation. When I talk about "nuance specificity" I do not mean sound but rather the precision or today system accommodation and ability of today system to be exactly what they need to be. I always felt that applying the best components and techniques from past combining with the best techniques today it is possible to get much more interesting result then what was 80 years. What they show for sure has historical and sonic value but if you pay attention what they do today, this stupid Magner-loaded horns is kind of foolishness.

Anyhow, answering your question of what happened in the last 80 years. Two things happens. First is  that  a faulty knowledge was developed and become dominating, it has to do to a degree with topological and design perspective but in a greater scale it has to do with material. The materials 80 years were much better and were not contaminated with defecations of contemporary civilization. Drive 100 miles from your town, find a farm that do not use any fertilization  (good luck to find one) and try to eat a fresh egg right from a chicken or to drink milk that still warmed by the cow's body. You will have all your questions about "progress" of our food. Why do you think that anything in audio shall be different? The second thing that happened during the last 80 years was Joe Roberts. In past, even in America in 60s companies were run by engineers. If you look for SEO of  American corporation in 50-60 then you will see a lot of former engineers who evolved to become strategic management. After 70s the SEO more and more become format marketing people, sale personal the rest of the Joe Roberts waste. It is no surprise that to sell that crap that those companies do we need or unintelligent consumers and a lot of brainwashing or wars. We have both in US and we certainly have the first one on audio.
 Stitch wrote:
I was also interested to listen to those electronics, some in Seattle

I did not know that you make this side of pond. If you do Seattle then while do not you change plain in Boston. I will be happy to play for you some ...Germanic music.
 Stitch wrote:
Living voice + Kondo from Great Britain I didn't even shoot a pic, so I use one from last year and my "opinion" about the Performance abilities didn't change. For 1 million it should be a bit better than static pling-plong-plang...but there are also Fanboys for it ...

Hm, they are 1 million now? A million does not mean million. They change a lot because the particular model they used is very expensively finished. I think in sensible finish it would be around $200K acoustic system. It would make it still super expensive but If Wilson Alexandria coast today somewhere around 170K then why Living voice Olympian ca not cost $200K. Anyhow, it is good that Kevin is demonstrating...
 
 Stitch wrote:
Magico Horns Well, the Demo man said, we all should thank God (and the Importer) for those here and we should concentrate to the remarkable sound. 6 educated Magico Technicians need one full day to build them up.....Price: when you have to ask, I think minimum 600k, Soundreproduction: Well, hard to say with movie music and music from outer space but I think, they will find their customers...I thought most of the time...WE stuff from 1928...shit...what happened the last 80 years.....?

I did not know that they are demonstrating this model. I did write about it in past: they are faulty designed horns. It might be interesting to hear is juts for sake of ALE drivers however. Looking at the crap they produce and the people behind the company I would not expect anything but music from outer space. Did they supplement the sound with a picture of an Israeli asshole with crying eyes who had with one hands his acoustic balalaika and with his other hands performing a hand job over Bernie Madoff?

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