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Well, here and there at my site I’m calling for rationalism in audio and suddenly I go enthusiastic regardless a perspectives of $200K Cessaro’s Gammas availability. Sounds hypocritical, doesn’t it? Well, not really.

I’m under no presumption that good Sound is available only at high expense.  However, we all know that there are people who voluntary willing to spend some dough, attacking the sound reproduction issues not with meaningful and targeted application of the audio solutions but rather throwing money in audio and “see what happen”. After all some of them are buying the Lamm ML3 for $126K, Kharma Exquisite for $160K, MBL amplifiers for $90K, the Wavac SH-833 for $350K or the Boulder‘s monoblocks for $126. I see no problems that those expensive products exist, even some of then sonically should cost no more then $1000. What I am, as a horn devotee, is very welcoming is the fact of existing of the very expensive, perhaps the ridiculously expensive, properly made commercial horn system, and the Cessaro’s Gammas might be juts that commercial system.

I less care how much it cost but rather it is very interesting to see what kind “package” and what kind result is possible to obtain within this approach. I went within my own audio evolution across multiple stages that brought me to Injected Macondo – the configuration remarkably similar to Gammas, in fact at the level of proper horn implementation there are no ambiguity and there are the only few ways (or the one way) to do the things “right”. So, it looks, at least very superficially, that Gammas is noble endeavor in the commercial attempt to show off “what horns could do”. This is why I am very welcoming them.

I wish they rent some warehouse in East Cost’s tri-state area and facilitate demonstration session, charging the admission fees and educating the Morons how horn might sound if then made properly. Sure, I hardly feel that Cessaro’s Gammas would be able to deliver some the satellites and overall performances of the “tailored systems” but as a cookie-cutter commercial product it should be an adventures journey…

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