OMG. Never expected the report to be this long. 3784 photos minus a few rejects.Thanks to all who stuck with the report as it was created. It sure was one heck of a show, wasn't it!
We'll be working on this report over the next few days, weeks, and months, adding comments and we will try to label much of the equipment - at least their brand, and maybe whether they are a speaker or amp or... [well, sometimes it IS hard to tell!].
The next issue will have a show roundup and various non-show articles and will be of a normal 100-200 page size.
Neli and Peter Qvortrup in the the Audio Federation / Audio Note room.
A pair of these little Magnepan speakers were put behind a screen, along with a pair of subwoofers, and we were asked to listen to several passages of music. To their credit, they played cuts from several genres of music.
I had heard through the grapevine what was begind the screen, so I was not 'surprised' when they revealed the setup - but could instead focus on the differences between this, relatively inexpensive setup, and uber expensive setups.
In terms of dynamics [midi and macro specifically], in terms of separation, in terms of scale [to a point, we were able to hear exactly where these little speakers were before the curtain went up - but it was not overt], this system was very, very good.
what this system lacked was emotion - subtle harmonics and micro-dynamics that make the music involving. I would be very interested in hearing this setup with different electronics, cabling and vibration control. If these speakers can handle the extra information fed by a suped-up front end, then this would really be something.
And, as it was, it was an important statement about what can be done with these little Magnepans and I do not want to minimize how good this system was compared to most. Wish I had taken photos of the subwoofer setp behind the curtain. They were telling us not to take photos of it [and I still do not understand why. It was ugly. OK. So what?'.
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