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In the Thread: The Loudspeaker (Troels Gravesen project); Finally!
Post Subject: Suitable for Transplants?Posted by Paul S on: 12/11/2023
It’s been a while since I visited face to face with my World-traveling
friend, Mark. He came by yesterday, and we talked and also listened to Music
via my MA-9S2s and The Loudspeakers. It was all LP playback. Mark has had his
own giant hi-fi system in storage while he travels, and he said he misses frequent
Music sessions via his hi-fi, even
though he regularly attends live events in world class theaters and venues, in
the course of his travels. I had turned on my system about ½ hour before Mark
got to my house, and it took another ½ hour playing Music for the system to
come into top (designed/acceptable) form. Although Mark and I do not have
exactly the same Musical and playback
preferences, we share a lot, and we both very much like the notably “refined”
quality my system exudes, with very “natural” and “lifelike’ pitch, timbre,
dynamics, timing, etc., unforced, with all instruments and voices accounted for
and in their places, pretty much full range, at volumes that bring the Music
across. Mark has used giant tube amps with giant electrostatic speakers (Sound
Lab A-1s) in a large room, for years. He has said before he would be happy with
the MA-9S2s, and yesterday he asked if I would build a pair of The Loudspeakers
for him when he settles down again. By saying this I mean to convey to those
who are curious about The Loudspeakers that I am not the only one who “gets”
what the MAS-9S2/Loudspeaker pairing can do, at least for “serious” Music. We
included yesterday some fairly simple jazz (John Coltrane, “Ballads”), and it
was downright touching, just gorgeous, which I mention to reinforce the “realistic”
“scaling” The Loudspeakers do, for those wishing to keep it down to one system.
Paul S
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